49 Quotes by Ann Napolitano

My wife is pregnant, and her physician told her that physiologically and medically speaking, there are three different kinds of humans: men, women, and pregnant women. I think the same idea applies to you, Edward. There are grown-ups, children, and then you. You don’t feel like a kid anymore, right?” Edward nods. “But you won’t be an adult for years. You’re something else, and we need to figure out what you are, so we can figure out how to help you.

All motivators are valid if they produce good work, son. And frustration can be a powerful motivator.

He’s winded by the sentence, as if the truth has taken something from him.

I want you to understand that there can’t be information about you – that is true – that you don’t already know. Your life takes place in your skin. No one else knows a goddamn thing, and the Internet is full of cowboys and sad people making stuff up.

Take stock of who we are, and what we have, and then use it for good.

Eddie was leaning against his father’s chest, and the sensation of that weight – the complete trust and lack of inhibition with which the boy relaxed every ounce of his body into his father’s – was one of the things that made parenthood unmissable.

Since death is certain, but the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?

When in doubt, read books,” Principal Arundhi says. He speaks quickly, as if worried this might be his last opportunity to share his thoughts. “Educate yourself. Education has always saved me, Edward. Learn about the mysteries.” The boy looks at him, and believes him. Believes that education saved him, believes that he had once been a person who needed to be saved.

I love the Internet, or at least I used to, but it’s not where you go for the truth.