Skye

“Who says I'm never afraid? Of course I'm afraid. You can't have courage without fear, any more than you can have a ray of light without shadows." He sounded much more awake now. "Some things are frightening, and only a fool wouldn't be afraid of them." He scratched the back of his head. The girl wondered if he was thinking about the charity men, too. "Courage is feeling fear and facing it head-on.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

“That's what it is to care for a person," Toby said. There was not a hint of mocking in his voice. "If you're not afraid you're not doing it right.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

“The point of having a hypothesis is not to be right. It’s about the data. Sometimes the data takes you in a direction you never imagined, and you have an interesting result.”
― Jennifer L. Holm, The Third Mushroom

“If we all could just ignore the way other people looked, then we could see who they really were.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster