Patricia

“How neat, how elegant, not to waste any more lives, but to give the dangerous task to the boy who had already been marked for slaughter,”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong—faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it’s too late.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Modern womanhood was more about rubbing snail mucus on your face than she had thought it would be. But it had always been something, hadn’t it? Taking drops of arsenic. Winding bandages around the feet. Polishing your teeth with lead. It was so easy to believe you freely chose the paints, polishes, and waist-trainers of your own time, while looking back with tremendous pity to women of the past in their whalebones;”
― Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This