[quote] "You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree, but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend—trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch—perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree."[/quote]

[color=silver][indent][indent]— Laurie Halse Anderson, [i]SPEAK[/i][/indent][/indent][/color]