Aaron Pecht

“the universe was not kind to auggie pullman. what did the little kid ever do to deserve his sentence? what did the parents do? or olivia? she once mentioned that some doctor told her parents that he odds of someone getting the same combination of syndromes that came together to make auggie's face was like one in four million. so doesn't that make the universe a giant lottery, then? you purchase a ticket when you're born. it's all just random whether you get a good ticket or a bad ticket. it's all just luck.”
― R.J. Palacio

“Gentlemen,” he said. “I give you The Eagle’s Covenant.”
― Michael Parker, The Eagle's Covenant

“But that never happened and I moved on, and I think that’s all we can do at this point…”
― Cade Mengler, The Companions

“Just as, all too often, some huge crowd is seized by a vast uprising, the rabble runs amok, all slaves to passion, rocks, firebrands flying. Rage finds them arms but then, if they chance to see a man among them, one whose devotion and public service lend him weight, they stand there, stock-still with their ears alert as he rules their furor with words and calms their passion.”
― Virgil