Philip Lopez

“If you are going to be of support to others, you should not expect those people to be in a space where they have to hear your trauma, even if your intention is to find common ground. It’s not about common ground—common ground involves you.”
― Traci Baxley, Social Justice Parenting: How to Raise Compassionate, Anti-Racist, Justice-Minded Kids in an Unjust World – An Empowering Guide to Diversity, Activism, and Meaningful Change

“The next Crusades will be not religious but consumerist,”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence

“It’s not as hard as one might think to become, the hard part is just to keep being it. It’s hard because it’s so easy to get in your head that if you are to be happy, you have to be happy exactly all of the time. And who in the world has the energy for that? Happiness can be exhausting. Honestly, it’s most often enough to just not be the opposite.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Answer Is No

“(We did not run. If we ran then we would have to admit there was something to run from. If we ran, then the small child that lives in every soldier’s heart knew that the monsters could get us.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead