DLK

N: I'm going to get changed and then head outside to put the snow tires on the cars.

D: Should I help you?

N: No, it's really a one-person job.

D: That answer is the best gift you could have ever given me. 

NEH

N: We have bacon for tomorrow. I can take it out of the freezer if you want.

D: We have bacon? I didn't know we had bacon. 

N: Yeah.

D: Where did you get bacon? 

N: At Menards.

D: You did not.

N: Yes.

D: You did not get bacon at Menards! 

N: Yes.

D: You're married now! You don't buy bacon at the hardware store! 

JK Simmons

I think the majority of the time in my work, and I hope in my life, the primary motivation for most behavior is love.

Interview in The New York Times, Sunday, January 21, 2018.

Chelsea Tornetto

​​A story is often the most effective way to create personal connections between very different people. Reading a novel allows us to see the world through someone else’s eyes, remove the context we are used to and replace it with something new. We are more prepared to accept things beyond our own experiences because we know we are reading a ‘‘story,’’ and yet we also actively search for similarities between our own lives and the lives of the characters. A novel can begin to open students’ minds and shape their hearts, without doing battle against their sense of self.

From Allowing In the Light, Teaching Tolerance Issue 57, Fall 2017

https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/fall-2017/allowing-in-the-light