Dee Scaman

“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“Human language is not the only form of communication and transmission of information and in some cases, it is not the most effective.”
― Alexander Morpheigh, The Pythagorean

“But the next time you hear a story like the one that ran
on the front page of The New York Times in October of 1997, reporting on “the
ageold animosity between the Tutsi and Hutu ethnic groups,” remember that
until Mbonyumutwa’s beating lit the spark in 1959 there had never been
systematic political violence recorded between Hutus and Tutsis—anywhere.”
― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

“Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so?
Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you.
And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am?
The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life--
A deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you,
Death and the strong force of fate are waiting.
There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon
When a man will take my life in battle too--
flinging a spear perhaps
Or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.”
― Homer, The Iliad