“It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.” IfsThinkingLooksLittlesGirlCuteHeightGradesVery CoolEighth GradeShort Girl Author:Alison McGhee
“So we [with Kate DiCamillo] would act them out, we would toss ideas back and forth, we would laugh, we would argue. Sometimes it went really well, sometimes it was such a pain in the ass. Our other rule was that we wouldn't work on it at all when we weren't in the other's presence. It was really hard not to do that. We'd start going on email back and forth, 'What do you think about this, what do you think about that?' But, no, no, no, it had to be live. So we forced ourselves not to look at it except during those two-hour stretches when we were actually with each other.” ThinkingWellsLooksTwoIdeasSometimesHardPainHoursLaughingArguingAssEmailBack And ForthKateToss Author:Alison McGhee
“Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.” WorldWayLooksWaterLevelsOceanRiversAmazonMississippi Book:All Rivers Flow to the Sea Source: All Rivers Flow to the Sea
