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61 " ...It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference. "
― Joan Bauer
62 " Almost Homeby Sugar Mae ColeHome isn’t always a place you picture in your mindWith furniture and cookies and music playing and people laughing.Home is something you can carry around like a dreamAnd let it grow in your heart until you’re ready for it.Losing things helps you appreciate when you find them againAnd finding things gives you hope that when you lose thingsIt might not be forever.Once, long ago, a girl lost her home, but she didn’t lose her dream.She hung on to it as the wind kept trying to blow it away,But that just made it stronger.So now she has keys and walls of many colorsAnd people around her who think she’s something. "
― Joan Bauer , Almost Home
63 " Have you ever noticed that it takes a textbook dozens of pages to say what normal people can cover fast? Example: What was the full impact of World War II? Clear-cut teenage answer: we won. "
64 " Everything's got a purpose, really - you just have to look for it.Cats are good at keeping old dogs alive.Loss helps you reach for gain.Death helps you celebrate life.War helps you work for peace.A flood makes you glad you're still standing.And a tall boy can stop the wind so a candle of hope can burn bright. "
― Joan Bauer , Stand Tall
65 " Cope or die. "
― Joan Bauer , Rules of the Road (Rules of the Road, #1)
66 " My father always told me that in this world we are going to make a truckload of mistakes, but the best mistake we can ever make is to err on the side of mercy "
― Joan Bauer , Best Foot Forward (Rules of the Road, #2)
67 " When you can carry five full dinner platters on your left arm, you should be able to vote, even if you're not eighteen. "
― Joan Bauer , Hope Was Here
68 " I had expected the well to be full for some reason.Not that it had ever been before.I kept looking for signs of water in the dark insides.I heard my bucket clank as it hitAgainst the walls that held nothing.I look at the bucket that came up emptyAnd made a decision that changed my life.I will keep my bucket and find another well. "
69 " Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering. "
70 " Sometimes the best thing that can happen to a person is to have a puppy lick your face. "
71 " They marched. Not for themselves. They marched to remember the ones who didn't make it back. They marched because seeing so much loss can teach you about life. they marched because we're all fighting a war whether we know it or not...a war for our minds and souls and what we believe in. "
72 " I don't do normal. I have a reputation to uphold. (Thwonk) "
73 " He stood up, put the tree back under the grow light. 'There. That's what's going to happen to us. It's called grafting. Taking something from one place and fixing it to another until they grow together. We didn't start from the same tree, but we're going to grow together like we did. "
74 " Sometimes just getting up in the morning and standing at the gate can bring the gate down. "
― Joan Bauer , Peeled
75 " Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything. "
76 " If you worry about every little thing you're going to have one thoroughly miserable life. "
― Joan Bauer , Backwater
77 " it's a complete rush to get what you've been hoping for - to get it so full and complete that it fills your senses. "
78 " You need a negative charge and a positive one to get something moving. We've got the negative; we're going to find the positive if it kills us. "
79 " Know why I plant trees?""No.""I like thinking that they'll be here long after I'm gone. All those fine memories pushing up to the sky. "
80 " Teenagers are like bees at night, I think. We don't like waking up and we don't always get with the program immediately, but once we figure out our mission, we'll see it through. "