Eric

“A couple of the band guys were talking about it,” Kevin says. “They didn’t actually know your name, but we knew it was you because they described you as ‘gay Ginny Weasley.’”

“Charming,” I say with a scowl. “Glad to know I have such a powerful reputation.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“I teach you to be warriors in the garden so you will never be gardeners in the war.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Your kind’s memories are tricky things,” she said finally. “They are like oil paintings. Even the first draft is an impression, an imperfect recreation of the event itself. Yet each time you access those memories, you paint a new layer overtop the old, adding small changes and tweaks. Those alterations grow and compound on themselves over time until the current painting almost doesn’t resemble the original.”
― Travis Bagwell, Flame

“Reality told us we would fail. But again and again, we fought. We perserved . We rose.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone