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“Tomorrow is tomorrow. Over there is over there. And here and now is not a bad place and time to be, especially when so much of the unknown is beautiful.”
― Light from Uncommon Stars
― Light from Uncommon Stars
“There was perhaps no other school in the greater Melbourne area, perhaps no other school in Australia, that had so many children of war. Some shy, some loud, some laughing, some quiet—and every one of them on a hair trigger. Every one of them swallowing barrels and buckets of the wrath, frustration, grief, and shame that other Year 6 students sipped in juice-box amounts.”
― On Fragile Waves
― On Fragile Waves
“One doesn't expect a falcon to pull a plow, or a butterfly to cook your breakfast.”
― The Interior Life
― The Interior Life

“And school isn’t the same as theatre,â€� said Xavier, gazing round the building. “In a classroom you can talk this stuff through, interrogate it, contextualize it, and so on. You can’t do that here. There’s no pop-up footnotes to explain the subtext while the story is happening in front of you. That’s different. Makes it feel…real. Or at least endorsed: like, this is how it is and we’re not going to explain it. Study it critically by all means, talk about it, but don’t stage Othello and expect me to just sit there and drink it in, okay? Not gonna happen. Not Othello, and not The Merchant of Venice.”
― Burning Shakespeare
― Burning Shakespeare

“A road's just an opinion about which way to go.”
― Million Mile Road Trip
― Million Mile Road Trip
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