Brian Lantz

“The teachers, principal, and Miss Barks all gave me the same lecture on how I was not working hard or living up to my potential. I had no fight with them. You get to a point of not giving a damn over people thinking you’re worthless. Mainly by getting there first yourself.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“We are rock, Moo, till the stars fall and the seas dry up. They will break against us.”
― Taylor Brown, Rednecks

“You ask me, Crock, there’s different Americas. America if you got means or don’t, if you work in a tie or neckerchief, up in the office or down on the killing floor. White or colored, man or woman. Native or not. I reckon there’s Americas they’d drop a bomb on, and ones they wouldn’t even think it.”
― Taylor Brown, Rednecks

“Fear is easy to root. Love and respect take more time,”
― Deborah Harkness, The Book of Life