Abi

“I remembered that confidence had its roots in trust, and that I used to trust myself, but somewhere along the way I had decided the world could not be trusted, and I could not be trusted to make my way in it. There was a hollow place inside me where that confidence used to be.”
― Catrina Davies, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed

“This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom – we cannot avoid being shaped by the past. But some freedom is better than none.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow