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"Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic."
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"Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic."
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"Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown."
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"She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts."
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"She got a long pointed nose and big fleshy mouth. Lips look like black plum. Eyes big, glossy. Feverish. And mean. Like, sick as she is, if a snake cross her path, she kill it."
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"She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red."
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"A Vampire!" I stammered. Then I noticed her legs. Below the cheerleader skirt, her left leg was brown and shaggy with a donkey's hoof. Her right leg was shaped like a human leg was it was made of bronze. "Uhh, a vampire with-""Don't mention the legs!" Tammi snapped. "It's rude to make fun."
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"Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic."
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"The death of a young person for no reason is an apocalypse."
Mortality
"You look at pictures of Nepal, push a smile button, and you think that's the same as going there."
Travel
"Suffering is only suffering if it's done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion."
Sacrifice
"You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right?"
Knowledge
"It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it."
Psychology
"Surveillance shouldn't be the tradeoff for any goddamn service we get."
Surveillance
"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."
Time
"The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before."
Work
"And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students."
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