Ethan Higginbotham

“It’s better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It’s harder to scare them a second time, harder to teach them, harder to win back their trust. Best to begin by teaching.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“Clearly, men need new models for self-assertion that do not require the construction of an enemy “other,”
― bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

“The joy of living, its beauty is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“He had said,”Mother, my little heart, in truth we are each responsible to all for all, it’s only that men don’t know this. If they knew it, the world would be a paradise at once.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Complete Novels