To finish out Reading Week, the faculty of NPHS have offered their favorite quotes from beloved novels. Here are just a few to ponder:

Miss. Marsland:

“It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.”

~Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling

Mr. Chomka:

“The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.”

~ The Drifters, by James A. Michener

Mr. Gianfrancesco:

“There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Pick a nice day, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy suggests, and try it.”

~ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

Mr. Garganese:

“Love is a smoke made from the fumes of sighs.”

~ Romeo and Juliet, By William Shakespeare

Mr. Centracchio:

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

~ A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens

Ms. Louth:

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

~ The Great Gasby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Mr. Ramos:

“The groove is so mysterious. We’re born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away. I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.”

~ One Hundred Demons, by Lynda Barry

Mr. Moniz:

“You’ll be on your way up!
You’ll be seeing great sights!
You’ll join the high fliers
who soar to high heights.”

~ Oh, the Places You’ll Go, by Dr. Seuss

Ms. Kim Cimini:

“Monsters are real and ghosts are real too. They live inside us and sometimes they win.”

~ The Shining, by Stephen King

Ms. Pasonelli:

“Sometimes I’ve believed on as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

~ Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll