Vaughan

“In the eighth American-educational grade, Bruce Green fell dreadfully in love with a classmate who had the unlikely name of Mildred Bonk. The name was unlikely because if ever an eighth-grader looked like a Daphne Christianson or a Kimberly St.-Simone or something like that, it was Mildred Bonk.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“The New Testament without the miracles would be far easier to believe. But the trouble is, it would not be worth believing”
― J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism

“My point is this: the more you have to lose, the braver you are for standing up.”
― Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones

“Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in the belief that necessity forces conformity, and conformity a certain stability. In a world shaped into conformity, dissidents stand out, are easily branded and dealt with. There is no multitude of perspectives, no dialogue. The victim assumes the face of the tyrant, self-righteous and intransigent, and wars breed like vermin. And people die.”
― Steven Erikson, Midnight Tides