Cynthia

“and very carefully to them the truth of what you know, but with kindness in your heart. Have compassion for them, because not everybody starts on an equal playing field. Love, Gloria”
― Danzy Senna, New People

“For the virus had not disappeared. It had only gone underground, like a forest fire left burning in the roots, swarming and mutating, adapting, honing itself, watching and waiting, waiting to burst into flame.”
― John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

“But the virus, even as it lost some of its virulence, was not yet finished. Only weeks after the disease seemed to have dissipated, when town after town had congratulated itself on surviving it—and in some places where people had had the hubris to believe they had defeated it—after health boards and emergency councils had canceled orders to close theaters, schools, and churches and to wear masks, a third wave broke over the earth.”
― John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

“It’s the fusion of their magnetism with our ordinary existence that creates the magic.”
― Maureen Dowd, Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech