Rachel VB

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
― Francesco Petrarca

“If you don't say the honest thing, it never becomes true.”
― John Green

“Perhaps none of us assumes romantic love to be a birthright. Yet the confidence it will come surely admits of degrees. Growing up, I assumed I was the word that rhymed with none other-- like "silver" or "orange," glistering bright, but sonnet foiling, and always solitary traveling. Somewhere love happened, plausible as a catch of distant conversation. But not in the self's way.”
― Kenji Yoshino, Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights