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“Unfortunately, every year thousands of students end up in one or more of these categories: jail, pregnant, dropping out, gangs, or dead where this vicious cycle will only get worse unless someone else changes this irreplaceable system. - -Blank Check: What Would You Do If You Were Asked to Reinvent Public Schools?”

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“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”

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“Adults have led education for eons and don't let students have any say. If this is going to work, we need a different approach. -Blank Check: What Would You Do If You Were Asked to Reinvent Public Schools?”

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Author:Aaron L. Smith, Ph.D.

“Memory,” Dr. McKee says, watching his computer screen, “is really just a series of electrical pulses generated by neurons. If we put an electrode there and monitor it, we’re able to map out the memory. Tracking the electrical signals in your brain creates a pattern, and each pattern represents a specific experience. Look around this room, Tatum,” he says.”

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Book:The Adjustment

Source: The Adjustment

“The mind wants to understand things—it’s a miracle. We make logic jumps every day—images we see are interpreted. We make natural assumptions to form an understanding”

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Book:The Adjustment

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“But the longer I look at him, the more I start to realize there's something different about him from the Tyler Bowens and Todd Robertsons of my world. I take back what I said when I first met him - FrozenRobot does have a frozen quality. All of his movements and facial expressions have a tesnion to them, like her was carved out of stone and locked in a chamber of ice and recently brought back to life. I don't know how to describe it, but the more I stare at him, the more I see his grief wrapped around him like shackles he can never take off. I try to imagine him without the grief, without the heaviness, without the frozenness, but it's hard to see him as anything other than desperately sad. Yes, he looks like someone who was designed to be popular and successful, but he also looks like someone who was made to wear grief. ---- He wears it well.”

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Book:My Heart and Other Black Holes

Source: My Heart and Other Black Holes

“Oh my darling Annaleigh, remember when you let the turtles go? Some things can't be kept." He cupped my cheek, and my tears trickled down his fingers. "Be brave. Be strong. You'll always have my whole heart.”

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Book:House of Salt and Sorrows

Source: House of Salt and Sorrows

“For a moment the kiss is gentle, careful - I'm so conscious of my not knowing, of his knowing - and then he utters a sound so low in his throat that it may be a cry of need or perhaps sorrow muffled against my mouth. Then we're not longer gentle, and I no longer care that I don't know what I'm doing because I know.”

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Book:Fireborne

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“In my less charitable moments I might call him a coward, but I get it. I'd opt out, too, if I could. I just don't feel like I can. There's still too much I'm willing to die for.”

Book:Shadow Me

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“I find my room claustrophobic. It is small, but that's not what I mean. It's claustrophobic because I feel like I've been trapped here for so long, this floor forming the centre stage from where my life story is playing out.”

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Book:Almost Adults

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