Lisa L

“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
― W.E.B. DuBois

“The terrible thing about love is that it takes away your safety net, your balancing pole. Even the tightrope you walk upon will disappear beneath you, yet love expects you to keep walking anyway, arms outstretched, one foot after the other, on nothing more than air.”
― Christopher Barzak, The Love We Share Without Knowing

“In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this.
I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away.
I can't say goodbye.”
― China Miéville, The Scar

“We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.”
― André Berthiaume