Summer Slide Quotes

#1. One day, my lady." said Mr. Keeper, stepping aside and allowing her to join them, "I should hope I would be fortunate enough to see such a graceful, unearthly curtsy from you again.

Heather Dixon

#2. What I tend to tell my students is, "When you look in the mirror and see a smart, angry girl who wants to be free, you're seeing a paradigm that Kathy [Acker] helped bring into the recognizable."

Sarah Schulman

#3. When I was young I believe in magic and unicorns, but when I grew up I learn that you have to believe in love ...

C.M.

#4. Wealth is not necessarily a bad thing when it has been earned in an honest manner and neither other individuals nor the environment suffered for it.

Dalai Lama

#5. They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the way they have begun; they have voiced most of all the imperative need of essential personalism, of direct expression of direct experience.

Marsden Hartley

#6. Aww, come on. I don't bite...hard.

Aprilynne Pike

#7. The one thing Andrew couldn't do for his son was to protect him from what he himself was, from the strange evolution and deep grief of his own life.

Deirdre Madden

#8. The universe, I realize, is full of little torches. Sometimes, for some reason, it's your turn to carry one out of the fire - because the world needed it, or your family needed it, or you needed it to keep your soul from twisting into a shape that's entirely wrong.

Hilary T. Smith

#9. Scientists are also unnerved by the summer's implications for the future ... proof that human activities are propelling a slide toward climate calamity ... humans may have tipped the balance ... a particularly harsh jolt to polar bears.

Andrew Revkin

#10. Causing harm is never just a one-way street.

Sharon Salzberg

#11. How can we ask for our young stars to have a high level of responsibility if we are not demonstrating that same level of responsibility towards them?

Jada Pinkett Smith

#12. To slide into the domed reading room at ten each morning, specially in summer, off the hot street outside, was a sensation as delicious as dropping into the water off the concrete edge of the Fitzroy Baths.

Helen Garner