Laura Birnbaum

“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“The monster in American history is not simply that which destroys. It is a being that must be destroyed. ...There can be no simple border wars in America's conflicts. Every battle is a mythic battle, a struggle against savagery, whether it be a Native American war, the search for a sea monster, or a war on terror.”
― W. Scott Poole, Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting

“The problem with books is that they end.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You