“It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.” KnowsWantPersonsHard Book:Trailerpark Source: Trailerpark
“One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good reason.' But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another, to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers, especially to strangers who have neither good, nor bad reasons to love us.” WantChildrenPersonsMatterReasonParentDifficultOur ChildrenDareStrangerWho We AreMatesDifficult Things Author:Russell Banks
“I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.” GivingPersonsBookHomeKidsReadingInterestingChangedExcitingWeekendChanged Person Author:Russell Banks
“One hates a person for the same reason one loves him” PersonsReasonHateOne Love Author:Russell Banks
“It was strange to stand there in front of the mirror and see myself like I was my own best friend, a kid wanted to hang with forever. This was a boy I could travel to the seacoasts with, a boy I'd like to meet up with in foreign cities like Calcutta and London and Brazil, a boy I could trust who also had a good sense of humor and liked smoked oysters from a can and good weed and the occasional 40 ounces of malt. If I was going to be alone for the rest of my life this was the person I wanted to be alone with.” IfsPersonsKidsWantedMy OwnCitiesBoysForeverFrontsStrangeMirrorsLondonSense Of HumorWeedOccasionalGood SenseBrazilOystersCalcuttaGood Sense Of HumorMalt Author:Russell Banks
