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Matt de la Pena has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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My chest got this weird feeling, like when you stare into the eyes of a little baby and the baby looks back…
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The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this…
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I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this…
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I guess I don't really know what I want to do, either. Sometimes I feel like a shook-up bottle of soda. Like,…
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When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am.…
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But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right…
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People always think there's this huge hundred-foot-high barrier that separates doing good from doing bad. But there's not. There's nothing. There's not…
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But mostly I remember every morning before school. How she'd say "Hey, honey!" just I was walking out the apartment door. And…
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Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story…
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When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as…
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In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace…
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I used to be so angry about the kids that had stuff. Like the kids that had cars, the kids that had…
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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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In this life, your so-called ordinary life, you must be rooted; and in your inner space, in the spiritual life, you must…
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The pictures achieve something rarely articulated about the metaphysical state of swimming: The body, immersed, feels amplified, heavier and lighter at the…
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Vert skating was the kind of skating that was done in pools, where you could get airborne and be weightless. The other…
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If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image…
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White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.
— Peggy McIntosh
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The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to spend some time looking out at…
— Robert Crippen
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Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own…
— Elisabeth Eaves
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The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this…
— Matt de la Pena
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Weightless in water, swift as the wind, Subtle of purpose - a feather blown - I go with my oarsmen where they…
— Mark Van Doren
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Feeling weightless... it's so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky.…
— Wally Schirra
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Lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless. And lonely is healing if you make it.
— Tanya Davis
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