amberwrites

May 16

Taken with instagram

Taken with instagram

Feb 26

“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.” — Frank Serafini (via booksandnerds)

(via booklover)

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” — Philip K. Dick; I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon (via wordpainting)

(via booklover)

Feb 22

“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” — Malcolm X (via creatingaquietmind)

I am so gonna use this quote in one of my To Kill a Mockingbird lessons.

(Source: jarsathome, via teachingliteracy)

Feb 21

vintageanchor: “To see the city in black and white is to see it through the tarnish of history: the patina of what is old and faded and no longer matters to the rest of the world. Even the greatest Ottoman architecture has a humble simplicity that suggests an end-of-empire melancholy, a pained submission to the diminishing European gaze and to an ancient poverty that must be endured like an incurable disease; it is resignation that nourishes Istanbul’s inward-looking soul.” —Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul

vintageanchor:

“To see the city in black and white is to see it through the tarnish of history: the patina of what is old and faded and no longer matters to the rest of the world. Even the greatest Ottoman architecture has a humble simplicity that suggests an end-of-empire melancholy, a pained submission to the diminishing European gaze and to an ancient poverty that must be endured like an incurable disease; it is resignation that nourishes Istanbul’s inward-looking soul.”

—Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul

Feb 20

“If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.” — Mortimer Adler (via thesearepeopleyouknow)

(via teachingliteracy)

Feb 19

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aseaofquotes: Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

aseaofquotes:

Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

(via teachingliteracy)

“When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.” — Viktor E. Frankl (via amandaonwriting)

(Source: goodreads.com, via teachingliteracy)

vintageanchor: “Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.” ― Langston Hughes

vintageanchor:

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”

― Langston Hughes

[video]

Feb 18

teachingliteracy:  (by pranzkaeno)

teachingliteracy:

 (by pranzkaeno)

“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.” — Richard P. Feynman (via creatingaquietmind)

(Source: pressured, via teachingliteracy)