Mckenzie Schuster

“She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there--like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.”
― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

“Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.”
― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

“This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.”
― Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

“An absence of information is not the same as information about an absence.” We’re blind to our blindness.”
― Steven Johnson, Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software