Maxine

“He has to survive this, if only to avoid having his digital corpse kicked to pieces by those grunting, knuckle-dragging troglodytes otherwise known as commenters.”
― Stan Lee, A Trick of Light

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“You saved me, you know that?" she said as she let her fingers glide over his. His skin was warm and soft, his grip loose and unthreatening as he lifted his fingers to accommodate hers.
But he was shaking his head. "No, I didn't," he said without once taking his eyes off the road. "You saved yourself. You made a choice, and stopped waiting for life to make it for you." She felt his fingers tighten against hers. "I understand now, that's the only way things ever change.”
― Michelle Adams, Hidden Treasures

“I thought about how my great-grandparents had starved to death. I thought about their wasted bodies being fed to incinerators because people they didn’t know hated them. I thought about how the children who lived in this house had been burned up and blown apart because a pilot who didn’t care pushed a button. I thought about how my grandfather’s family had been taken from him and how because of that my dad grew up feeling like he didn’t have a dad. And how I had acute stress and nightmares and was sitting alone in a falling down house and crying hot stupid tears all over my shirt. All because of a seventy year old hurt that had somehow been passed down to me like some poisonous heirloom.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children