Samantha

“History is about the past. Yet it exists only in the present – the moment of its creation as history provides us with a narrative constructed after the events with which it is concerned. The narrative must then relate to the moment of its creation as much as its historical subject. History presents an historian with the task of producing a dialogue between the past and the present. But as these temporal co-ordinates cannot be fixed, history becomes a continuous interaction between the historian and the past. As such, history can be seen as a process of evaluation whereby the past is always coloured by the intellectual fashions and philosophical concerns of the present. This shifting perspective on the past is matched by the fluid status of the past itself.”
― Dana Arnold

“I think lonely creatures ache for each other because who else can understand but someone who feels the same dark, black abyss?”
― Morgan Rogers, Honey Girl

“I read to be moved, in every sense of the word, To go to places I haven't been, and to glimpse worlds I otherwise couldn't see, including the worlds deep within myself.”
― John Green

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
― Jean Genet