Al

“Quite simply, I’ve always been in love. For me, artists, a man or a woman, who doesn’t have a sense of seduction, the gift of love, faith in the mysterious rendezvous, is not an artist. Art, you know, is seduction, passion, the pursuit in its life in the most inspiring, most beautiful, sweetest things.”
― Josephine Baker, Fearless and Free: A Memoir

“Hope is for fools, Historian.” Gabriel met the vampire’s eyes. “Hope gets you killed. Hope walks into the fire. Faith leaps over it. I didn’t hope Dior was alive. I believed it.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“But moral attention is not a finite resource.”
― Zoë Schlanger, The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

“But more importantly, there is no shame in wanting to protect those who are your hive, even if you never knew them. For they are yours, and they are being taken. It is us or it is them. There is consolation in dying in the pursuit of justice, no matter how small or big that death is.”
― Matt Dinniman, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook