Stacy Hatake

“I know that look, seeing a dead body for the first time, you never quite get used to it…”
― Cade Mengler, The Companions

“123”
― Sybrina Durant, 123 Count With Me: Fun With Numbers and Animals

“After that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague, hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

“There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed. This passion tends to elevate the lesser to the rank of the greater. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America