Gabrielle Smith

“He called us fake news. He said we were paid hacks. We were charged with tax evasion and cyberlibel and ownership violations. Rappler’s license to operate was revoked. It remains under appeal. Our reporters were banned from covering the president.”
― Patricia Evangelista, Some People Need Killing

“I hope that you will love me as I am- not as you wish me to be”
― Alex Myers

“Maybe those who voted for death thought they had voted for a metaphor.”
― Patricia Evangelista, Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

“It’s art that helps me cope. Because art is a fragile magic, just like love, and that’s humanity’s only defense against death. That we create and paint and dance and fall in love, that’s our rebellion against eternity. Everything beautiful is a shield. Vincent van Gogh wrote: ‘I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends