Mackenzie Peterson

“No one is a greater schoolgirl in spirit than a cynic. Cynics cannot relinquish the rubbish they were taught as children: they hold tight to the belief that the world has meaning and, when things go wrong for them, they consequently adopt the inverse attitude. "Life's a whore, I don't believe in anything anymore and I'll wallow in that idea until it makes me sick" is the very credo of the innocent who hasn't been able to get his way.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen

“To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.”
― Adolf Hitler

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray