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“Try to hang on to that innocence for as long as you can. As we age, we get cynical. The world wears us down. We stop fighting.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“She’d learned rebellion while muttering the rosary.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“Alice would only have to be in the hospital for two nights this time, and it was only out of, according to her mother, "an abundance of caution." It reminded her of a murder of crows, a flock of seagulls, a pack of wolves. She imagined that "caution" was a creature of some kind -- maybe, a cross between a Saint Bernard and an elephant. A large, intelligent, friendly animal that could be counted on to defend the Green sisters from threats, existential and otherwise.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Terran man was clay, red dust. Athshean man was branch and root. They did not carve figures of themselves in stone, only in wood.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Word for World Is Forest