In the mess of moving from ...

In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
 Tea Obreht

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An "I know what I like" mentality is hard to shake, but of course appreciation has space for being challenged.
 Ryan Gander
SHUCHU RYOKU - Focus all your energy to one point.
 Gozo Shioda
The warrior knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words. Yes. Love. God. They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.
The Warrior lives a life full of adventure, living on the edge of opportunity. Life on the edge keeps him in a space of heightened awareness and totally in the moment; therefore no matter what comes his way he is always prepared.
 James Arthur Ray
Seeing energy as it flows is an imperious need on the path of knowledge. Ultimately, all the effort of sorcerers is guided to that end. It is not enough for a warrior to know that the universe is energy; he has to verify it for himself.

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My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory.
 Tea Obreht
In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
 Tea Obreht
When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.
 Tea Obreht
No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.
 Tea Obreht