Tashna Downes

“I don’t know why more love stories aren’t written about platonic intimacy.”
― Alexia Arthurs, How to Love a Jamaican

“PISA was developed by a kind of think tank for the developed world, called the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the scientist at the center of the experiment was Andreas Schleicher.”
― Amanda Ripley, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

“As affluence and urbanization rise in a society, rates of depression and suicide tend to go up rather than down.”
― Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

“What would you risk dying for—and for whom—is perhaps the most profound question a person can ask themselves. The vast majority of people in modern society are able to pass their whole lives without ever having to answer that question, which is both an enormous blessing and a significant loss.”
― Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging