The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao

Yes, the wilderness was in me, yes it kept my heart beating fast all day long, yes it danced around me while I walked down the street, yes it let me look boys straight in the face when they stared at me, yes it turned my laugh from a cough into a long wild fever, but I was still scared. How could I not be? I was my mother's daughter. Her hold on me stronger than love.

~Junot Diaz

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

"I didn't run away to come home the same."

~E.L. Konigsburg, as said by Claudia

Peaky Blinders

"All religion is a foolish answer to a foolish question."

~Thomas Shelby, played by Cillian Murphy