Sierra Certain

“He had become my poster boy, a walking testament to how will and belief can make up for lack of muscle, how anger can overcome blindness.”
― Abraham Verghese, My Own Country: A Doctor's Story

“I have always been obsessed with naming things. If I could name them, I could tame them. They could be my friends.”
― Eve Ensler, The Vagina Monologues

“Like a gloomy and sinister paradox since its apparition until now, socialism suffered terrible and terrifying metamorphoses. With the name of the most human doctrine—Socialism—the most ominous and naughty crimes against humanity were done. The National Socialism of Hitler created Auschwitz and Majdanek and the People’s socialism of Stalin — Gulag and Kolima! And both of them buried more than fifty million people! That’s monstrous!”
― Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

“Her name wasn’t Jane. Not legally. But she wore it now like a uniform: plain, practical, invisible.”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel