Beth

“a taxi driver in New York regularly addressed his fare in a manner which if repeated in London would end in some sort of fracas, if not in the fellow being frogmarched to the nearest police station.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.”
― S. E. Hinton

“But I was still lying and I knew it. I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear”
― Rudyard Kipling