Ideas
The best partners, the best crushes, help us feel seen. The best books do, too. They remind us that we’re not alone. Everyone feels a little goofy. Everyone feels a little unsure.
It’s never too late to piece yourself together, however slow it is to assemble your history and your identity. It’s never too late to embrace yourself, fragments and all. Every part makes up a whole, and makes you enough.
I felt what it meant to have someone from an older generation extend her hand to someone of a younger generation: Come on in, out of the cold. Sit for a while, and get yourself warm.
I think it’s important to inspire young girls to stick together, to stand up for one another, and to love each other even through the parts of life that are ugly.
I want to challenge the term “reluctant reader.” There are plenty of kids who fall into this category who really want to read! They just haven’t yet found the books that work for them.
Our heroes will survive to live another day, and even if the road is rocky, and even if their world doesn’t end up all rainbows and unicorns and Skittles, at a minimum the downpour will end, the sun will come out, and they will be left with that powerful thing called HOPE.
How far would you go to convince yourself that everything is fine?
Lost your democracy? How long does it take to get it back?
For the people of Portugal, that number was 48 years.
Before I was a Deaf, queer, and Disabled author, I was a Deaf, queer, and Disabled reader.
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