Ystyn Francis

“I force a smile and hold up my hand, which must end up looking like some sort of strange, leery wince, like I've just swallowed a glass of somebody's urine and I'm recommending it.”
― Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones

“Every one of us knows who he is, and what God expects him to do.”
― Joseph Stein, Fiddler on the Roof Full Text and lyrics

“We go off the meds and elect Richard Nixon, the Nurse Ratched of the American political psych ward.”
― Don Winslow, The Kings of Cool

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt