Gerri Watson

“Change the world? Of course they could. He really believed this, and he really believed that “a small group of committed individuals” could do it. He liked to say of PIH, “People think we’re unrealistic. They don’t know we’re crazy.”
― Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

“The Black Prince is entombed at Canterbury Cathedral. His effigy reads: “Such as thou art, sometimes was I, Such as I am, such thou shalt be, I thought little on hour of death, So long as I enjoyed breath, On earth I had great riches, Land, houses, great treasure, Horses money and gold, But now a wretched captive am I, Deep in the ground, lo I lie, My beauty great, is all quite gone, My flesh is wasted to the bone.”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

“the most valuable asset stolen from the Congo was the sovereignty of its people.”
― Tim Butcher, Blood River: The Terrifying Journey through the World's Most Dangerous Country

“How do you tell someone she has to learn to love herself and her own body before she can be loved or love?”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books