Bohdana

“You can't outrun something you carry inside you. Don't waste your time trying.”
― Crystal Smith, Greythorne

“Facts is facts. Wishin' 'em false and declarin' 'em fake don't make it so.”
― Crystal Smith, Bloodleaf

“You want things to be different? Work to make them different. Work until your back aches and your fingers bleed and everything hurts so bad, you forget the pain in your heart”
― Crystal Smith, Greythorne

“But a perfect meritocracy banishes all sense of gift or grace. It diminishes our capacity to see ourselves as sharing a common fate. It leaves little room for the solidarity that can arise when we reflect on the contingency of our talents and fortunes. This is what makes merit a kind of tyranny, or unjust rule.”
― Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?