Lexi Byers

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Maybe your son didn't get that job because he's not good enough. Or he's lazy. Or the other guy was better than him, no matter what his skin color. I think the white people who have been here for two hundred years are the ones pulling down the country. They don't know how to work — they've had it too easy”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I flew too near the sun
and my wax wings fell off”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind