Kelsey

“A life’s impact can be measured by what it gives and what it leaves behind, but it can also be measured by what it steals from the world.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

“This is the world: the lying likeness of Our strips of stuff that tatter as we move Loving and being loth; The dream that kicks the buried from their sack And lets their trash be honoured as the quick. This is the world. Have faith.”
― Dylan Thomas, Collected Poems

“Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue, dear man. In an imperfect world, I fear it’s the best we can manage.”
― John le Carré, A Delicate Truth

“The question is not whether Lincoln truly meant “government of the people” but what our country has, throughout its history, taken the political term “people” to actually mean. In 1863 it did not mean your mother or your grandmother, and it did not mean you and me. Thus America’s problem is not its betrayal of “government of the people,” but the means by which “the people” acquired their names.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me