Wait." "So what am I supposed to do now?" "You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years' imprisonment beneath a mountain of rock had I only realized how good it is to be a monkey." (222-223)

My best teachers, the teachers who had the deepest effect on my reading, combined the two. They would mix required reading with reading where you had some choice, you had some autonomy. There's a place for both. A good teacher will know how to find that balance.

If you look at our world, we're becoming so much more diverse in every sense of the word. It's not just about culture or identity. It's also about the different ways we communicate.

To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms.

Sometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.

I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is research-based.

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.