Iris

“Because, like Sherlock says to Dr. Watson, ‘it is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.”
― Oliver Van DeMille, A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Century

“Chiltington was a snake. Worse. A garden slug. Maybe a leech. Something oily and slimy that left a greasy trail and liked to mooch off other people’s ideas.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

“Books need to have their spines cracked, their covers opened, and their pages ruffled for them to come alive.”
― Chris Grabenstein, Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics