Showing posts with label familiar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label familiar. Show all posts

Monday, 7 April 2025

Quotes: Julia Brodsky

"Questioning takes the familiar and makes it mysterious again, thus removing the comfort of "knowing"."

–– Julia Brodsky, educator and education researcher based in the United States

Source: Jeff Karp. LIT: Use Nature's Playbook to Energize Your Brain, Spark Ideas, and Ignite Action. New York: William Morrow, 2024; p. 22. 

via: Commonplace Book 2024, 2024, p. 60.

Tuesday, 4 October 2022

Quotes: Carson McCullers

"We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange." 

–– Carson McCullers (1917-1967), American writer 

via: Sketchbook A, 2017, p. 31