María Braeuner

“If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it! Put your dream across, and never mind what “they” say if you meet with temporary defeat, for “they,” perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“We foolishly believe that our own limitations are the proper measure of limitations.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: Granddaddy of All Motivational Literature

“I said that it was amazing to me that a group of anthropologists wouldn’t recognize the biases that they were perpetuating themselves.”
― Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

“The culture of true-crime fandom felt like it flattened crime into entertainment, using other people’s fear and trauma to deal with a sense of bodily vulnerability. I understood the power that comes from bringing yourself to the edge of what you’re most afraid of, but I worried that inhaling stories about death at that clip required a detachment from the people who were killed and the families that were grieving. There’s a responsibility to the dead as well as the living.”
― Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence