Nina

“-When people are scared, it's easy for them to decide anything different is evil. To forget that everyone is basically the same, that we all love our families and want regular lives. And what makes it worse is that some people use that. They make others scared on purpose, because they know if they do, everyone will start acting stupid.
-But why would they want that?
-It's a way to control people. A way to get what they want.”
― Marcus Sakey, Written in Fire

“Libraries are the mainstays of democracy. The first thing dictators do when taking over a country is close all the libraries, because libraries are full of ideas and differences of opinion, all the things we say we want in a free and open society. So keep ‘em, fund ‘em, embrace and cherish ‘em.”
― David Baldacci

“Los Angeles, I thought to myself, where it's summer all winter long, every waitress is a starlet in the making, and the street names have long since run out of presidents and trees.”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

“There were so many things age could do to you; so few you could do in return.”
― Mick Herron