Brandon Bennett

“American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

“There is nothing more important in life than perception, because you shape your life through it.
It is like a looking glass, you look and you perceive things. You perceive a reality. You make it real and you live by it. It is all about your eyes, how you see it. And what you see, you create.”
― T.M. Lakomy

“We may run into Kevin,” Lucy said gloomily.
“She’s hoping to run into Kevin,” Zoë assured her.
Justine smiled grimly. “Preferably with my car.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Rainshadow Road