Jessie

“Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.”
― Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow

“We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.”
― Tad Williams

“I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but I have almost always found that children are a great deal more reliable in telling us what actually goes on in public school than many of the adult experts who develop policies that shape their destinies.”
― Jonathan Kozol, The Shame of the Nation

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan