Megan

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
― Daniel Defoe

“She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
― Joy Williams

“The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism—the founding of a state based on the ideology of white supremacy, the widespread practice of African slavery, and a policy of genocide and land theft.”
― Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton