Parker Keys_to_hades

“Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“Neither boy ever intended to speak about the events at the cliff that day. But of course their mothers eventually worked the truth out of them. Mothers always do.”
― John Flanagan, The Outcasts

“People always find it amusing when they see a friend suffering, Stig thought.”
― John Flanagan, The Invaders

“We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles