Grace

“the modern concept of adolescence is not a biological stage, but a cultural mind-set. It doesn’t stop when you graduate from high school, or when you turn twenty-one.”
― Alex Harris, Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations

“A coward I might be, but at least I was a free one.”
― Nadine Brandes, Fawkes

“They had something worth dying for. Ah, but you have something they don't.
And what's that?
Something worth living for.”
― Nadine Brandes, Fawkes

“Our uprising is against a cultural mind-set that twists the purpose and potential of the teen years and threatens to cripple our generation. Our uprising won’t be marked by mass riots and violence, but by millions of individual teens quietly choosing to turn the low expectations of our culture upside down.”
― Alex Harris, Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations