Noticing Sentences

"The Journalist" p30 for journalism class "Accessory" p47 word use/ word choice and juxtaposition "Don't Flatter Yourself" p71-72 males dealing with the male gaze I realized that the students in Wyoming didn't need to hear my speech as much as they needed to see me, an out, proud lesbian, right before their very eyes. I knew what my presence communicated to them: if my life was possible, their lives and the lives of their friends were possible, too. p89 Looking at Matthew Shephard's picture reminds me why I do the work I do: so that what happened to him will never happen again. I gaze at the face of the young man I never had the chance to meet, and whisper a traditional Jewish prayer for peace that includes the words: and you shall lay down and no man shall terrify you . To quote John Lennon: Imagine. p91

"A Noiseless Patient Spider"- a great poem about what we're trying to do when we write poetry

"The same Negroes and their descendants are upon it who tilled it as slaved," Van de Graaff wrote to a friend. The Gee's Benders continued to "work like slaves for the white people," said Loretta Pettway. p7 [regarding share-cropping] In 1932, one of the white merchants died without leaving records of who owed what. In the fall, his widow sent henchmen to Gee's Ben to collect from the entire community. The men swept in and took everything of value... p15 She said, "I going to take his work clothes, shape them into a quilt to remember him, and cover up under it for love." p25, 27 "It was... like you walk into a room and ain't no light on, and you turn on a light in the darkness-- that's what Dr. King meant to us. He turned on a light for us." p29

Illinois connection! Love it! Humor If those guys couldn't tell the difference between a friend and a girlfriend-- well, that made them too dense to be worth worrying about. p33 Description Kenny only had two volume levels: whine and yell. p37 (also, use of a colon) She was the kind of teacher who made you wish you could have her every year for the rest of your life. p77 Race Discussions p77-79 mom and Mrs. Roberts p84-86 meeting Mr. Dixon Most of the time, my mom was a very nice person. I hated thinking of her as someone who might be prejudiced against black people. p80 Mr. Dixon and food-- 163-166 I wondered if thinking about this race stuff too much made you see it in places where it didn't exist. But then I wondered the opposite: Maybe it existed all the time, and you only saw it if you were really thinking about it? p181 Maybe everything in life had its messy bits. Things other people didn't see. Or didn't know they didn't know. Or didn...

" Everyone is everyone. Whole point of 'everyone.'" "The whole point of everyone is for them to constantly do stupid things while we--not everyone-- make fun of them for it and feel superior. p6  ______________________________ "They don't believe in it [therapy]. If you can't pray it away, it's not a real problem." p7 _______________________________ Ness said, at the ALAN Convention 2017 in St. Louis, MO that he wrote Release as the book he wished he had when he was a kid. I think this quote from the book also speaks to that. But sometimes a guide or history or a long-established literature would have been useful. Could he buy a rose? And give it? How would Linus take it? Did everyone else in the world know the answer except him? p11 ______________________________ "No," his father said to his other too quickly, too firmly . "And don't talk like that. Of course he isn't." With his eye on Adam, maki...

The city of Detroit actually established a "horse college" with report cards for each horse. p11 Lazy or scared people might not help. p13 (Nice to know this isn't new.) Firefighters in Ancient Rome-  read it! p18 The method [of raising buildings] worked so well that one hotel was raised several feet while the guests were still in it. No one felt a thing. p25 He described her [Mrs. O'Leary] as an old, lazy, dirty woman who didn't care when a cow kicked a lamp over. At that time there was a lot of prejudice against Irish immigrants. p 38-39 "The Windy City" p58 Lost Treasures - p75 People were given [from the government] enough material to build small shacks to live in. Women were given free sewing machines, so that they would have a way to earn a living. p87

Illinois connection! Every summer, Leda's family forced her to come on their annual visit "home" to Podunk, middle-of-nowhere Illinois. ... If she'd done what they did-- moved from Danville to New York as newlyweds... p11 LOL It sucked sometimes, being best friends with the girl too flawless to come from nature. Leda, on the other hand, probably came from a night of tequila shots on her parents' anniversary. p12 World-building Rylin was a little impressed to find it full of illegal old paper greenbacks, which still circulated wildly through the black markets since, unlike nanodollars, they were untraceable. p113 Buy a pack of grapefruit M&M's... p125 Cord had once asked why her job even existed, why they didn't just have bots at each monorail stop like they did at upper-floor lift stations. "Because I'm cheaper than a bot," she told him, which was true. p184 The three hour train ride ... [from New York to Paris] p187 Two...