Hellen Flennoy

“I never forgot their many kindnesses to me. You might forget many things in your life, but you never forget kindness. Like love, it stays with you...forever." -Sara (Grandmere)”
― R.J. Palacio, White Bird

“Or maybe I was just a girl, interrupted”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“Atahuallpa’s presence at Cajamarca thus highlights one of the key factors in world history: diseases transmitted to peoples lacking immunity by invading peoples with considerable immunity. Smallpox, measles, influenza, typhus, bubonic plague, and other infectious diseases endemic in Europe played a decisive role in European conquests, by decimating many peoples on other continents.”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

“He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera