If I have learned anything in a lifetime spent overseeing schools, it is that childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul. — *location: 81* ^ref-1990 --- The Rembrandt light of memory, finicky and magical and faithful at the same time, as the cheaper tint of nostalgia never is. — *location: 2005* ^ref-14838 --- And what did he read in mine? I — *location: 4188* ^ref-40339 --- I sat there with my brain nearly cracking, working so hard to think through what was right and what was simply righteous. — *location: 4188* ^ref-25781 ---