Don Rosso

“Russia is usually readier to ascribe misfortune to conspiracies rather than to the more probable screwup.”
― Dominic Ziegler, Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires

“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“But equal treatment in an unequal society could still foster inequality. Because black men were disproportionately incarcerated and black women disproportionately evicted, uniformly denying housing to applicants with recent criminal or eviction records still had an incommensurate impact on African Americans.”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City