- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The value of a story like 'Deadline' is kids get to look at death at the perfect distance. They can put the book down. They can experience the story, rub up against it, but it's not real life.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2004, one of my books, 'Whale Talk,' was chosen as an all-school read in Fowlerville, Michigan, a rural town not far from Detroit. They had done what I thought was a brilliant and innovative thing: decided to teach the book in every discipline, sophomores through seniors.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
My years as a therapist working with abuse and neglect families taught me at least one important lesson for my own life. Never judge until you can see through the eyes of that person you are judging, and then... never judge.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing about life is sacred until we make it so.
- Dent
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we're going to make a real dent in the bullying issue, we're going to have to address the bullies themselves: find ways to help empower them that don't include allowing them to be predators or to simply be punished.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking.
- Parent
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- Nov 07, 2020
The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people with agendas.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have any complaints about my youth... one is that many well-meaning adults lied to me. Not spiteful lies with malicious intent but lies designed to prevent emotional and psychological pain - lies told by the people who cared about me most: my parents, teachers, relatives.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Censors can make a case for zero tolerance in language. They can make the argument that since we don't allow our children to use that language in schools, we also shouldn't give them stories in which it is used.
- Handed
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The kids you turn your backs on when you take away their stories are the ones who lose, as well as you as a community of adults who may appear to fear their truths.
- Library
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no personal agenda in whether or not a library keeps 'Whale Talk' or 'Athletic Shorts' or any of my books shelved.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020