Andrea

“...Schmidt admitted in private that if were up to him he would've happily burned them, burned them with glee and without thinking twice and kept the ashes too, he'd said, in an urn that he'd place prominently on a mantel in the Berlin residence he hoped one day to die in, an urn that would serve as a reminder of the perils and pitfalls of mediocrity.”
― Mark Haber, Saint Sebastian's Abyss

“Against all those years, what was a word?”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Mars

“Well, heroes got patted on the head, then pushed out of the way until the next time a hero was needed, if they survived being a hero in the first place. Very often, heroes did not.”
― Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams

“The stories of old women are the quiet, overlooked fabric of history.”
― Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead