Maxwell Smart

“Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.”
― Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion

“If he wanted the job, he was going to have to work with the one woman who could bring him to his knees and drive him off a cliff at the same time—”
― Heidi McLaughlin, After All

“Guardian angels guide the steps of idiots.”
― Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion

“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska