Julie

“Sometimes kindness is a duty, a job that one sets out to accomplish with time and patience and effort. People who feel this way, myself included, fight against some other gnawing instinct within; we bloom like a flower from the dirt.

It's an honorable thing to strive for, and there's nothing bad I can say about that kind of growth.

Other folks, however, don't even think about it. There's some uncanny spark that always pushes them to make the right choice, because they're not even aware a choice exists. It's just what they do.”
― Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

“(In the hierarchy of migration, “expat” is largely reserved for white Westerners who leave their homes for another country, usually because the money’s better there. When other people do this, they might be deemed “aliens” or “illegals” or at best “economic migrants.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“Tran turned to Vadim. “Do you own a red shirt? I feel as if I should put one on.”
― Matt Dinniman, The Gate of the Feral Gods

“This society—what we call modern society, what we always think of as the most important time the world has ever known, simply because we are in it—is just the sausage made by grinding up history.”
― Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea