Dagger

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Everyone you lost was still there with you, and so maybe no one was ever lost at all.”
― Joe Hill, NOS4A2

“At times, young man, you tread a precariously thin line between being charmingly headstrong and insufferably pigheaded.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe