Vincent

“You get to choose who you are. Legacy, memories of the past, can serve us well. But we cannot let them define us. When heritage becomes a box instead of an inspiration, it has gone too far.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

“We regard our own memories as truths, when they are often just the stories we have told ourselves over time. They become the truth we live by, or with. They become our lives.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Written on the Dark

“Yet there was surely an element of courage - a more substantive courage than the kind required to select a controversial paint color - in sticking to an unpopular perspective even at the price of appearing despicable.”
― Lionel Shriver, A Better Life

“He'd already catalogued a curious selectivity when it came to which news stories super exercised his mother and elder sister. Neither would-be activist ever seemed especially upset by the Chinese persecution of Uighurs, for example, or by the Iranian theocracy's repression of women, although you'd think that anyone obsessed with "social justice" would care about modern-day concentration camps, and self-avowed feminists would logically find distressing stories of young women murdered by morality police for not wearing headscarves.”
― Lionel Shriver, A Better Life