Qi Mcintosh

“I wonder sometimes if the sacrifice I made to have this success is worth it. . . .”
― Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

“But that's the price, isn't it? Pretending to be someone that you're not . . .When I saw your picture in the New York Times, I was so proud, but I was also profoundly sad. I realize that to pursue one dream, you had to forsake your core identity. Changing a name is easy, changing your soul is impossible." Belle's father to Belle”
― Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

“I know this life that I've lived is false at its core And while I yearn for another, I'm afraid because of the world we live in.”
― Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

“To some, the precariousness of the current moment seems frightening, and yet this uncertainty has always been there. The liberalism of John Stuart Mill, Thomas Jefferson, or Václav Havel never promised anything permanent. The checks and balances of Western constitutional democracies never guaranteed stability. Liberal democracies always demanded things from citizens: participation, argument, effort, struggle. They always required some tolerance for cacophony and chaos, as well as some willingness to push back at the people who create cacophony and chaos.”
― Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism