Travis Eckel

“When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises.”
― Eoin Colfer, Half Moon Investigations

“Pay no attention to the terrors that visit you in the night. The psyche is at its lowest ebb then, unable to defend itself. The desolation that envelops you feels like truth, but isn't. It's just mental fatigue masquerading as insight.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Fresh Complaint: Stories

“Inside me there was a lot of best friendship that no one but Ginger was using.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, The View from Saturday

“…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women