Alessia

“Men in Charge, Rodney said, all of them, no matter what side of the aisle they’re on, are all criminals. Every single one of them. In a just world, anyone who was elected president would do so knowing that once their term was over, they’d go directly to prison for war crimes, no ifs, ands, or buts. Every single one of them. See how many Men in Charge would be keen on harming others if that were the case.”
― T.J. Klune, We Burned So Bright

“From the very start, you had all the power. From the very start, I was in the palm of your hand.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Deep End

“All that time I was giving to others instead of staying at home reading or drawing or simply looking at the ceiling, half naked, observing the cracks. I couldn’t stand the idea of being forced to live that office pantomime in perpetuity just to pay for things like rent or food or a book or a weekend at the beach. I broke down every morning when the alarm beeped because life, lived this way, seemed like a badly written tragedy, boring and sterile, devoid of fun and, even worse, devoid of content, and so, on my way to work, I felt like grabbing strangers by the shoulders and asking them why they weren’t feeling like me.”
― Beatriz Serrano, Discontent

“Reading lets us live in someone else’s shoes. Literature builds bridges; it makes our world larger, not smaller.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface