Leah Brown

“Hitler had a bet that his youth, deliberately raised for this moment in his totalitarian society, would outfight the soft, spoiled children of democracy. Hitler lost that bet.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of WW II

“We have cats. The father is not very useful.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland

“The old ways had a dark side." The janitor calls after him, "So do we, Mr. Stahl, and now there's nothing to remind us.”
― Blake Crouch, Perfect Little Town

“The irony, of course, is that kids believe that knowledge unlocks happiness. More than anything, they crave access to all the things that they aren’t supposed to know yet; as if being privy to the secrets of the world will open up some magical door to adulthood. They believe that if you know, you will understand. But in fact, the opposite is true. The more you come to know about the world, the less it makes sense; and the more you wish you could just climb right back inside your mother’s arms and hide there, an oblivious kid, forever.”
― Janelle Brown, What Kind of Paradise