Max Fortenbery

“You don’t have to worry about changing the whole world, princess, that’s too big for anyone. But if anyone can change that child’s world, it’s you.”
― Jaysea Lynn, For Whom the Belle Tolls

“I found myself asking the big question in spy school that wasn't on any test:
How does a scholar, a strategist, or a soldier understand a culture well enough to predict future outcomes without being willing to understand that all humans, from their own perspectives, are living a truth and reality as valid as ours?”
― Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

“Seeing herself as unimportant was safe. Unimportance was safe, being a disappointment was safe. There were no expectations, no standards, no more pedestals to fall from.”
― Jaysea Lynn, For Whom the Belle Tolls

“Do people even realize that it’s possible to become an adult without ever having been a child? How could I explain that yes, I looked whole on the outside but my skin was just a thin bag holding the jagged pieces together.”
― Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir