“Gods can be kind. Loving. Benevolent. Yet as the playwright George Bernard Shaw once wrote, “The gods of old are constantly demanding human sacrifices.”
― The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
― The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
“Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don’t—the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear out.”
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
“No civilization has survived forever. All move toward dissolution, one after the other, like waves of the sea falling upon the shore. None, including ours, is exempt from the universal fate.”
― The Lost City of the Monkey God
― The Lost City of the Monkey God
“The women had a story to tell, even if the world wasn't quite yet ready to hear it, and their story began with three simple words. We were there.”
― The Women
― The Women
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
― The Wishing Game
― The Wishing Game
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