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“At [my old school], when teachers stood up to address us in assemblies, it was to urge us to study hard, stay focused, remain resilient, set goals, seek support. If there was a “leader,” she was the exception, not the norm.
Listening to [the adults here], I wonder if things would be different if we spent thirteen years being told that we were born to lead, and that the only thing that would ever hold us back would be a limited imagination.”
― Randa Abdel-Fattah, When Michael Met Mina

“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
― Mia Couto

“My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

“I've never done grey before, but I suspect it's one of those things that, tried once, you can never resile from.”
― Randa Abdel-Fattah, When Michael Met Mina