Bruce Coville Quotes

• Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

  Bruce Coville

  Love, Sympathy, Heart

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• Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

  Bruce Coville

  Essence, Tools, Information

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• Wherever they may have come from, and wherever they may have gone,
  unicorns live inside the true believer's heart.
  Which means as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns.

  Bruce Coville

  Dream, Heart, Mean

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• If you don’t jump, the wings never come.

  Bruce Coville

  Wings, Ifs

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• The first draft of a story is the writer's clay.

  Bruce Coville

  Clay, Stories, Firsts

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• The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

  Bruce Coville

  Teacher, Real, Lying

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• I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.

  Bruce Coville

  Thinking, Imagination, Facts

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• Protective coloration...you learn to use it to get along in the world if you want. Only I got sick of living in the box the world prescribed; it was far to small to hold me. So I knocked down a few walls.

  Bruce Coville

  Wall, Sick, Use

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• There's lots of kinds of chains. You can't see most of them, the one's that bind folks together. But people build them, link by link. Sometimes the links are weak, snap like this one did. That's another funny thing, now that I think of it. Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all.

  Bruce Coville

  Thinking, Funny Things, People

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• Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense.

  Bruce Coville

  Girl, Common Sense, Common

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• All these guys picking on smart kids and calling them geeks and dweebs are going to grow up and want to know why they don't do something about the terrible state the world is in. I can tell you why. By the time they grow up, most of the kids who realy could have changed things are wrecked.

  Bruce Coville

  Growing Up, Smart, Kids

  Bruce Coville (2013). “My Teacher Glows in the Dark”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?

  Bruce Coville

  Stupid People, Watches, Hey

  Bruce Coville (2014). “My Teacher Is an Alien”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all... Never was a chain that couldn't be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea.

  Bruce Coville

  Ideas, Broken, Sometimes

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