Bridget

“We can't attack a thing we don't know. That's dangerous. And...foolish. It would be like trying to chop down a tree from the top of it. If we understand how the tree works, how the trunk and roots are where the power lies, and how gravity is on our side, we can attack it, each of us with small axes, and change the face of the the forest.”
― Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

“Batman doesn't have any superpowers. He's not superhuman. He's not super. So therefore he can't be a superhero.”
― Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones

“There’s freedom in stories, you know. We read them and we become something else. We imagine different lives, and while we turn the pages, we get to live them. To escape the lot we’re given.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

“Stupid people should never read books.”
― Andrew Smith, Grasshopper Jungle