Beatrice M

“The first few moments after you meet someone are precious, because the data on them is plentiful and your own subjectivity has yet to interfere.”
― Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy

“I’ve come to realize that there’s a difference between history and nostalgia, and somewhere between those two is memory,” he said. “I think that history is the story of the past, using all the available facts, and that nostalgia is a fantasy about the past using no facts, and somewhere in between is memory, which is kind of this blend of history and a little bit of emotion…I mean, history is kind of about what you need to know…but nostalgia is what you want to hear.”
― Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

“Saying something was for someone else’s own good was almost always another way of justifying something wrong.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë