Eric Brister

“You know what America is-they're all like spoiled children. Anything goes, isn't that what they say?”
― Soheir Khashoggi, Nadia's Song

“May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.”
― Peter Marshall

“Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“The next morning I had Twentieth-Century American Poetry at MCC. This old woman gave a lecture wherein she managed to talk for ninety minutes about Sylvia Plath without ever once quoting a single word of Sylvia Plath.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars