Lauren

“Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend. Or that you could slip inside the skin of another. Or travel to another place with marshes, and where, to our ears, the bad people spoke like pirates. ”
― Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip

“I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak