Beth Barcenas

“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.”
― Mark Twain

“Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself — a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dressed up in a cheap fur coat.”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

“Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.”
― Michael Crichton, The Lost World