Sydney

“...every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. And then keep trying, even when it's hard.”
― Eileen Cook, You Owe Me a Murder

“Good posture helped too, he said, and it worked. Standing tall and strong made my body believe that I was winning over the pain I was fighting.”
― Jade Hameister, My Polar Dream

“He passed Pluribus's nightclub and allowed himself a small smile. A person could get rat poison at any number of places, but he's surreptiously scooped up a pinch of it from the back alley last week and taken it home. It'd been tricky getting it into the morphling bottle, especially using gloves, but eventually he'd squeezed what he judged to be a sufficient does through the opening. He'd taken the precaution of making sure the bottle was wiped clean. There was nothing to make Dean Highbottom suspicious of it when he pulled it from the trash and slipped it into his pocket. Nothing when he unscrewed the dropper and dripped the morphling onto his tongue. Although he couldn't help hoping that, as the dean drew his final breath, he'd realize what so many others had realized when they'd challenged him. What all of Panem would know one day. What was inevitable. Snow lands on top. 515-16”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“You can blame it on circumstances, the environment, but you made the choices you made, no one else. It's a lot to take in all at once, but it's essential that you make an effort to answer that question. Who are human beings? Because who we are determines the type of governing we need. Later on, I hope you can reflect and be honest with yourself about what you learned tonight...And a few stitches in your arm is a cheap price to pay for it...Coriolanus felt nauseous at her words but even more enraged that she had forced him to kill for the sake of her lesson.. Something that significant should have been his decision, not hers. No one's but his. So if I'm a vicious animal, then who are you? You're the teacher who sent her student to beat another boy to death! 243-44”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes