Barbara

“I have experienced many terrible things in my life, and some of them have actually happened.”
― Elizabeth Helen Ivory, It's Not Your Fault!: Because you’re not choosing!

“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“—you have too good a mind to throw away. I don’t quite know what we’re doing on this insignificant cinder spinning away in a dark corner of the universe. That is a secret which the high gods have not confided in me. Yet one thing I believe and I believe it with every fiber of my being. A man must live by his lights and do what little he can and do it as best he can. In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.” She”
― Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

“Silence can be either protest or consent, but most times it’s fear.”
― Paul Beatty, The Sellout