Thao Ngan

“You ought to go to a boys' school sometime. Try it sometime," I said. "It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques. The guys that are on the basketball team stick together, the Catholics stick together, the goddam intellectuals stick together, the guys that play bridge stick together. Even the guys that
belong to the goddam Book-of-the-Month Club stick together.”
― Salinger Jerome David, The Catcher in the Rye

“The Hubbermanns had two of their own (children), but they were older and had moved out...Soon they would be both in the war. One would be making bullets. The other would be shooting them.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.”
― Christopher Parker

“The word communist + a large bonfire + a collection of dead letters + the suffering of her mother + the death of her brother = the Führer”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief