Lourdes

“. . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Eliminate the thinkers and you control the population. That's the real reason no one knows how to read and why we live in chaos”
― Dennis Foon, The Dirt Eaters

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“White men get a choice. They get to choose they job, they house. They get to choose to make black babies, then disappear into thin air, like they wasn't never there to begin with, like these black women they slept with or raped done laid on top of themselves and got pregnant. White men get to choose for black men too. Used to sell 'em; now they just send 'em to prison like my daddy, so that they can't be with they kids.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing