You try again. You fail better. - Gabrielle Zevin

Do you like Moby Dick?" he asks.

"I hate it," she says. "And I don't say that about many things. Teachers assign it, and parents are happy because their kids are reading something of 'quality.' But it's forcing kids to read books like that that make them think they hate reading.

Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

How I will miss the horses.