Vanessa Vazquez

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

“Is it true that human beings are fundamentally cruel? Is the experience of cruelty the only thing we share as a species? Is the dignity that we cling to nothing but self-delusion, masking from ourselves the single truth: that each one of us is capable of being reduced to an insect, a ravening beast, a lump of meat? To be degraded, slaughtered - is this the essential of humankind, one which history has confirmed as inevitable?”
― Han Kang, Human Acts

“Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.”
― Emily Murphy

“Why, is it such a bad thing to die?”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian