Madison Brantly

“Anh kể cho tôi nghe về anh đi… Ước mơ lớn nhất của anh là gì?… – Tôi không có những ước mơ lớn. Tôi chỉ đi từng bước nhỏ thôi… Điều quan trọng là bước từng bước nhỏ và luôn tiến về phía trước – Cuộc đời giống như một dòng sông vậy. Nếu em bước những bước quá lớn, dòng chảy sẽ kéo hụt chân em và cuốn em đi mất (Trích “Bước nhỏ vào đời” của Louis Sachar, Lê Thị Hiền dịch, NXB Trẻ, 2010)”
― Louis Sachar

“When I realized what the drawing was depicting, I thought I would feel horror-stricken and petrified, but a strange calm had settled over me. I said, “This blackness was in my nightmare. It was coming for me to take me away . . . and I was running, trying to escape.”
― Misty Mount, The Shadow Girl

“He was not a tall man, but he was wide. His face was the color and texture of old leather boots, and he was completely bald except for a gray walrus mustache that would have made Hulk Hogan jealous. He was wearing jeans and a T-shirt, even though it was chilly and wet. His arms were densely tattooed in style I didn’t recognize.”
― Grahame Shannon, Tiger and the Robot

“And ‘tis a rare prize for a man to obtain such a wife, but there is no lack of getting a bad spouse.”
― Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis