Kate

“For someone fortunate enough to be born wearing the boot, the capacity for mercy may well extend only to how hard one chooses to step on the neck. That anyone should take the shoe off entirely, walk from the site of the trampling, is unthinkable.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“There were gods here, once...when we arrived. Don't know where they are now. Maybe we ate them. Maybe we became them.”
― Isabel Cañas, The Possession of Alba Díaz

“...I have the strongest belief that the historical and moral sufficiency of the Palestinian cause will finally outlast and outstrip any attempts to misrepresent it.”
― Edward W. Said, The Question of Palestine

“And when she came on it, the child cried "I have found you wine!" Now she had found not wine - but Passion and Joy most sharp, and Anguish without end, and Death.”
― Joseph Bédier, The Romance of Tristan and Iseult