Crystal

“I learned a valuable lesson that day. And an enduring one, too, because it resonates with me still. Family is not just about who you appear to belong to, or what it says on your birth certificate, or who you look like, or even what they’d find if they studied your DNA. Family is found anywhere you are loved and cared for. That might mean friends or foster parents, a group or even a charity. What matters far more — so much more than chemistry or ancestry — is that precious bond, that reassurance that they won’t let you down.”
― Marina Chapman, The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys

“licentiousness has seldom produced the loss of liberty; but that the tyranny of rulers has almost always effected it.”
― James MacGregor Burns, The American Experiment: The Vineyard of Liberty, The Workshop of Democracy, and The Crosswinds of Freedom

“When I tried to envision how my dogs would react to a system where they spent two-fifths of the year locked up in the sort of cages used to fly animals in the baggage compartment of airplanes, the first-month-of-gestation solution suddenly no longer seemed all that great.”
― Barry Estabrook, Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat

“When I was seven years old, my family moved to North Carolina. When he was seven years old, Hugh’s family moved to the Congo. We had a collie and a house cat. They had a monkey and two horses named Charlie Brown and Satan. I threw stones at stop signs. Hugh threw stones at crocodiles. The verbs are the same, but he definitely wins the prize when it comes to nouns and objects.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day