Sarah DeBoice

“When people see too many of something, it just makes them feel sad. No one knows why.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

“One of the most damaging, longest-lasting consequences of the War on Terror years is an utter obliteration of the obvious moral case for nonviolence. The argument that violence in any form debases us and marks the instant failure of all involved is much more difficult to make when the state regularly engages in or approves of wholesale violence against civilians and combatants alike. Instead, the case for nonviolence becomes, in the ugliest way, pragmatic: the state wants violence, because in that playing field it maintains every advantage, from bigger guns to total immunity to the privilege of perpetual victimhood.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“That vile scam of a man's public goodness. It enraged her.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dream Count

“How quickly did the belly of despair turn itself over into hope, the give of the skin of overripe fruit.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep