Noticing Sentences

When Grandpa Reads to Me by John Micklos, Jr. p16 [I keep a photo of my Grandmother] by San Yee Kan p20 Still by Lee Bennett Hopkins p27

Great discussion of faithfulness/ consent- p 4-5 Achilles's sorrow monologue p182 Hector speaks to Achilles p221

My Favorite Poems from this one Emma Lazarus p13 Joseph Pulitzer p17 This book is great to pair with Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers.

*****I am avoiding spoilers for this particular book, but if you want to avoid spoilers for the SERIES, I suggest you do not read this post. LOL Her mother had said she needed to find her bliss. Who'd have thought it would be on an island in the middle of nowhere? p90  (irony) Perhaps it was his choice of famous residence that had brought him to Goddard's attention. Grouseland was, after all, the first brick home in the Indiana Territory. Damn. p200 Nietzsche, aside from having a name that was painfully difficult to spell... p200 (I feel like this is Shusterman putting his own little aside in here-- about having to type that name over and over.) "Maybe because I want you to use your hands for something more than pleasuring yourself." p362 Shade "With all due respect, it sounds like the world has been duped by a very charismatic and self-serving monster." p100 Because, after all, a thousand people gleaned in a mass even was such a small drop i

Poems I wanted to save "Rubber Twigs" p150-151 "Crowded Kalma" p153-155 "Flowers" p167-168 "Old Anwar's Lament" p191 "Wife" p192 "Mathematics" p229 "Talking to Sayidda Moon" p272-273 "Fly or Die" p282-283

LOL Not surprisingly, I haven't taken the breakup well, and I have no plans to take it well in the future. p18 "No one has anything to get up for. Life's pointless and everyone just gets up anyway. That's how the human race works," she says, and hands me a coffee. p19 According to George, it's a truth universally acknowledged that our family is shit at love. p21 I'd had my phone on silent all day and deliberately not checked, because it's a truth universally acknowledge that a watched phone never rings, especially when you're waiting on a text from your ex-girlfriend explaining why she doesn't love you anymore. p53 One of the great things about finishing high school is that you can finally get away from the dickheads. p54 ____________________ "She's my soul mate," I tell her. "Then I'm worried about your soul," she says, and goes back to serving the other customers. p67 ____________________ I'm

Irony They were singing Christian songs. I had grown up singing some of those songs in church, and I wondered why murderers would be singing them. p5 Life Lesson She would shush me. "It doesn't matter if he smells. He's still a person. A person is a person, no matter what," she said. "You must do what you can to help people. What you do comes back around to you." p34 "Beauty is in your head, not on your body," Dad would say. p141 It's exhausting when you think that you're not entitled to your emotions. p272 For genocide unit description of school p46-47 They [parents] were determined to raise us peacefully, even though we were growing up in a conflict zone. They taught us tolerance and forgiveness. I didn't understand why the Congolese kids were mean to us. I wanted to say to them, "Don't you have parents who teach you respect?" p46-47 an attack p63-65 another attack p73 Interhamwe p86 watching Hote

Awh For a second, I'm afraid he's dying. I have to remind myself that I don't care. p74 "That I knew I'd misjudged you. That you do love him. I'm not saying in what way. Maybe you don't know yourself. But anyone paying attention could see how much you care about him," he says gently. p156 ***What we consider a child-- p360*** Interesting to use in a discussion about how we talk about teens in the media today.

Description I couldn't believe it. For once I had actually said what I was thinking and something was happening about it. I felt a little flutter in my chest, like that split second when you're peering over the top of the hill on a roller coaster and then the weight grabs you and drags you down, and you're scared but really excited. p28. ________________________________ How do you say you like a thing? You can point to all the good parts. That you like how they ran away from home to a museum. That you like how Claudia packed her clothes in her empty violin case. That they slept in a big antique bed and took baths in the fountain. That they solve a mystery about an old statue. I like all that stuff about From the Mixes-up Files. But none of that is really the reason I've read it thirteen times and still want to read it again. That's something ... bigger. Deeper. More than all those things added together. How do you explain to someone else why a thing matters to

Religion "So perhaps now you see the truth of the temple," Bree says to Elizabeth. "It is not tradition but the word of the High Priestess that determines their course." p100 Politics "Friends," Emilia teases. "You are a queen now. You must say 'advisors.' Or 'counselors.' Or 'generals.'" p165 ***Chapter Indrid Down p 323 is where I felt like the writing started to feel more like plotting outlines than... writing.***