Quotes from Elizabeth Yates

Getting ready is the biggest part of any job, and the hardest, Jared...Lay your foundation true and firm, my boy, prepare your work well; the rest all but does itself.

Can't you see that it doesn't matter what the world thinks if you've done your work the best you knew how to do?

He knew how warm a thing praise could be, and even in the bitterest days of winter, he who had always felt the cold so, found that appreciation wrapped him like a cloak.