Beate

“As we walked home, I knew from far away the trees would've looked nice, the grass would've looked green, and we would've looked like just a couple of boys walking home, armed with Midwest love and Bible Belt morals.

But up close, the trees were scorched, the grass was dead, and the boys were on the verge of tears with the belts of those morals tightening around their necks, threatening to hang them if they dared step off the stool of masculinity.”
― Tiffany McDaniel, The Summer that Melted Everything

“Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.”
― Terry Brooks, A Princess of Landover

“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns