Gracie Clucas

“A clever terrible reader, sure, but a terrible reader nonetheless. I was always reading for something: first, for comfort, for pleasure, for validation, for comprehension; later, for symptoms, for ideas, for citation, for tenure. And always, secretly, for salvation.”
― Sarah Chihaya, Bibliophobia

“Women were always defined by the lowliest thing they could be called.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“How different it could have been if the international community had decided to put even a negligible amount of effort into caring sooner.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“One day the killing will be over, either because the oppressed will have their liberation or because there will be so few left to kill. We will be expected to forget any of it ever happened, to acknowledge it if need be but only in harmless, perfunctory ways. Many of us will, if only as a kind of psychological self-defense. So much lives and dies by the grace of endless forgetting.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This