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“She was brought here, bandaged, and saved -- now look / at how ungrateful she is to be set unfree.”
― Nicelle Davis, Penguin Noir

“Nostalgia for unity tends to ignore racial, sexual, and gender differences, often mistaking oppression for consensus.”
― Calum Lister Matheson, Post-Weird: Fragmentation, Community, and the Decline of the Mainstream

“Imagining someone as more than human does much the same work as imagining them as less than human: Either way, the ill are treated as fundamentally other because the social order is frightened by what their frailty reveals about everyone else’s.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“Hatte [die Französin] Glück, dass sie es noch rechtzeitig gemerkt hat? Und was bedeutet in diesem Zusammenhang 'rechtzeitig'? Und was 'Glück'? Sie hat ja alles verloren - das Glück und die Liebe. Meine Mutter hingegen hat nichts verloren. [...] Ihre letzte Erinnerung war Liebe. Dass sie wirklich glücklich war. So rede ich es mir schön, denn meine Mutter war nicht glücklich. Sie hat auf Glück gewartet.”
― Sarah Kuttner, Mama & Sam