Ottavio Avocado Quotes

#1. A good editor doesn't rewrite words, she rewires synapses.

S. Kelley Harrell

#2. We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

David Suzuki

#3. Travel is a set of corrective lenses that helps focus the planet's blurred reality.

Andrew Solomon

#4. She's applying her lipstick; I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.

Junot Diaz

#5. Some friends of mine bothered me for a long time about getting on the social networking pages. They were close friends that I liked to mess with, and I think that I kind of enjoyed for a while that it bothered them so much. Now they've just kind of given up.

John Hawkes

#6. At this point there were good days, good weeks, when we pretended that it was acceptable that Jack had lived at all, that his life had been, in its truncated way, complete. This wasn't one of those days.

Dave Eggers

#7. You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.

Martin Luther