66 Quotes by James Howe

So does being cool mean you get to go around calling other people names?

Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.

This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you can learn in school or from a book. It takes your whole being to do it—your eyes and your ears, your brain and your heart. Maybe your heart most of all. —Bobby Goodspeed

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It’s all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let’s dance.

The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed.

The way I look at it, love does not necessarily make for a happy ending any more than winning does. What makes for a happy ending is what Addie said all along: freedom. The freedom to be who you are without anybody calling you names. – Bobby Goodspeed.

Another thing I think about names is that they DO hurt. They hurt because we believe them. We think they are telling us something true about ourselves, something other people can see even if we don’t. – Bobby Goodspeed.

When you’re living through it, though, especially when you are twelve and you think the whole world is changing until you realize it isn’t the world, it’s you, no piece seems little. It’s all so big you think it can kill you. But it doesn’t. Which is why the story goes on.