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Here are some of the best quotes from the books on our booklist for you to read.

Some of the best quotes from Harper Lee's 'To Kill A Mockingbird'

• "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. ..
• "The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." ...
• "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

The Outsiders Quotes

• “Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.” ...
• “It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. ...
• “They grew up on the outside of society. ...
• “You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. ...
• “Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot.

Station Eleven Quotes

• “Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
• “Survival is insufficient.”
• “A fragment for my friend--
• If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you
• Silent, my starship suspended in night”
• “First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.”
• “No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.”
• “They spend all their lives waiting for their lives to begin.”

The Lieutenant Quotes

• “What an astonishing thing, that her praise filled his heart.”
• “Until you could put yourself at some point beyond your own world, looking back at it, you would never see how everything worked together.”
• “But below the chaos of a single human life, you could trust that a cosmic breve was sounding.”
• “Some kinds of order were too vast for a human to know. But below the chaos of a single human life, you could trust that a cosmic breve was sounding.”

Ransom Quotes

• “Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world.”
• “He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story.”
• “It re-enters the world of the Iliad to recount the story of Achilles, Patroclus and Hector, and, in a very different version from the original, Priam’s journey to the Greek camp. But its primary interest is in storytelling itself – why stories are told and why we need to hear them, how stories get changed in the telling – and much of what it has to tell are ‘untold tales’ found only in the margins of earlier writers.”

Animal Farm Quotes

• “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
• “Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.”
• “This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.”
• “Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?”
• “If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

Fahrenheit 451 Quotes

• “Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.
• It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
• “We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
• “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
• “The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”

Pastoral Care

Pastoral Care Sports Club

In term 3, the pastoral care department have started and successfully finished a five week fitness program. The program was a 5 week challenge for students to do a 1 hour fitness session with their teachers and friends online via Zoom. The program was made available to all our students' from years 7 to 12. Every year level had their specified days and they participated in a guided fitness session. Upon completing the 5 week program, students' will be receiving a certificate of completion.

We would like to congratulate and thank all students' who have participated in this challenge. In particularly, we would like to thank and commend Mahde Hallab (year 12), Ali Samo (year 9) and Emir Cicek (year 8) for helping run the sessions.

Pastoral Care years 7-9 Coordinator

As pastoral care department, we had another amazing term. Almost all of our program had continued even though we were under stage 4 restriction. Pastoral care Department organized 5 fitness challenge programs with special thanks to Mr Sacid Cicek, Saturday School and weekly programs.

We are very excited to present to you a school-wide art competition and reading competition organised by the Pastoral Care team focused on the theme of HOPE.

Although we are going through some challenging times, we believe as the youth you possess great strength and resilience and can ignite hope and optimism in our school community through your productions while also gaining some amazing rewards for yourself.

Everyone can take part in these competitions as it is open to students from Foundation to Year 12.

CATEGORY 1 - READING COMPETITION

You will need to read, reflect and study one of the two below books and do an online exam. START READING NOW!

Book 1: Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources by Martin Lings.

OR

Book 2: The Messenger: Prophet Muhammad and His Message of Compassion by Resit Haylamaz and Alp Aslandogan.

You will receive instructions on how you can get the ebook and hardcopy access to the books upon registration.

• 1st place $300, 2nd place $250, 3rd place $200
• 4th place $150, 5th place $100
• 6th to 10th place $50

The online exam will be on Sunday 25 October 2020 at 3.00-3.45pm (45 mins Multiple Choice questions).

You will receive details about the exam closer to date.

CATEGORY 2 - ARTS COMPETITION

Video production, Visual Arts, Poetry, Creative Writing, Painting, Letter or another form of art of your choice.

Prizes:

• 1st place $300
• 2nd place $200
• 3rd place $100.

Submissions are due on Sunday 25 October 2020.

We wish you all the best.