Brooke

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?”
― Connie Willis, Bellwether

“I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. ”
― John Milton, Areopagitica

“Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.”
― William James