Sue Brown

“I’d broken the rule because I wanted something. I wanted to matter. I wanted to do something meaningful before I died.”
― Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

“History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.”
― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

“friendship doesn’t have to be hard. That sometimes we let the world make it hard.”
― Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

“Mindfulness is the energy that makes us fully present, fully alive in the here and the now.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Breath: A Practice for Our Busy Lives