Colby Selvester

“History is a tale, Franklin came to believe, not of immutable forces but of human endeavors.”
― Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

“If I were a scientist watching her, what would I write down as the results? Woman who had neglectful/scary childhood finds comfort in fictional representations of families?”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

“While in the United States and Europe "revolution" was an excuse to sell pop music, stage protests, and hold festivals, it was being played for keeps in Asia. Young people were not just challenging their elders but pushing them aside, expelling, imprisoning, and in many cases executing them, all the while extolling the young as the righteous vanguard, their very youth a badge of purity. They were, by definition, forward-thinking. And in Hue they were armed.”
― Mark Bowden, Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam

“There was no plot... and I discovered it by mistake.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose