P 275 Quotes

“Maggie och Milly och Molly och jag / gick ner till stranden (för att leka en dag) / och Maggie hon fann en snäcka som sjöng / så fint att hon glömde alla problem, och / Milly hjälpte en ilandspolad stjärna / vars strålar fem kraftlösa fingrar var...” (...) ”Och Molly blev jagad av nån ryslig sak / som sprang på tvären blåsande bubblor: och / jag kol hem med en slät rund sten / liten som världen och stor som den allen ...” (...) ”För vad vi än mister (ett du eller ett jag rentav) / är det alltid oss själva vi ser i ett hav.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“Since realising that what a person knows about the past is limited, and will always be limited to what they are told by others. I knew what it was to have a misconception corrected - a misconception of such magnitude that shifting it shifted the world. Now I needed to understand how the great gatekeepers of history had come to terms with their own ignorance and partiality. I though I could accept that what they had written was not absolute but was the result of a biased process of conversation and revision, maybe I could reconcile myself sight he fact that the history most people agreed upon was not the history I had been taught. Dad could be wrong, and the great historians Carlyle and Macaulay and Trevelyan could be wrong, but from the ashes of their dispute I could construct a world to live in. In knowing the ground was not ground at all, I hoped I could stand on it.”
― Tara Westover, Educated