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1 " Giving up and letting go are too very different things, Lily. Giving up is admitting you're beat and walking away. Letting go means you're setting something free. You're releasing something that's been keeping you stuck. That takes faith and more than a little courage" -Pepere "
― Cynthia Lord , A Handful of Stars
2 " I was feeling a bit scared, and I realized something. To do brave things, you don't have to be hugely brave. You only have to be a little bit braver than you are scared." -Lily "
3 " Maybe when we see things all the time, we stop really looking at them. And it takes an artist, someone who can look past the ordinariness, to remind us how special they really are" -Lily "
4 " What I love about art is that anything is possible. Bees can be pink. Trees can be purple. It's like taking the world as it is and then swirling it around to show how it could be" -Salma "
5 " It's scary to try something different when you don't know how it'll work out, but that's when the best things can happen. The things that surprise you and change you. Those things can make *you* different" -Salma "
6 " All she had to do was tell the truth. This would be easy.I should've known, though.Real truth is never easy" -Lily "
7 " ...I wasn't sure if we'd ever be the same kind of friends we'd been when we were little. Maybe being two peas in a pod was over, but maybe we could be more like two wild blueberries: two of a kind, but different, too." -Lily "
8 " Dogs always forgive you when they know you're sorry. And so do star friends" -Lily "
9 " At the beginning of summer it always feels like there's so much time ahead: whole empty calendar pages of sunshine, warm sea breezes, midnight thunderstorms, and running barefoot in the grass. Enough afternoons to do every single thing you wanted to do and even some days left over to do nothing at all.But somehow summer fills up and flies by" -Lily "
10 " I think art can take ordinary things and show them to you like it's the first time you've ever seen them. And you realize that even ordinary things aren't really ordinary at all" -Salma "
11 " Sometimes life is like a long road leading from one "if" to another. "
12 " To do brave things you don't have to be hugely brave, you only have be a little bit braver than you are scared. "
13 " Giving up and letting go are two very different things. Giving up is admitting you're beat and walking away. Letting go means you're setting something free. You're releasing something that's been keeping you stuck. That takes faith and more than a little courage. "
14 " Different can be good. It makes you pay attention" -Dr. Katz "
15 " Sometimes understanding comes in little drops and other times it rushes in like the tide, rolling everything over as it comes. "
16 " I like art because there are no wrong answers. It's all about how you see the world. So you can be completely yourself" -Salma "
17 " But that's the one thing about being blind. What you look like doesn't matter to Lucky. He sees you with his heart" -Lily "
