Cristina

“Then again, I need a lot too. There are tons of unfuckable holes in me that need to be filled.”
― Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

“I just laughed. I think he got mad. I wish he knew that when an NDN laughs it's because they're applying a fresh layer of medicine on an open wound.”
― Joshua Whitehead

“Because that's how we take the future from them," Walid said, animated now. "Look at Stockholm, look at Munich, look at New York-- who's picking up the garbage, cleaning the toilets? Who's doing the work? Us. Who's doing the living? Them. But in ten, twenty years, we'll be the ones running the computers, the machines, the *infrastructure*, and they'll have nothing left but poems and stories."
"So they'll still do all the living," Maher replied, "and we'll still do all the work.”
― Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

“The library is a whispering post. You don't need to take a book off a shelf to know there is a voice inside that is waiting to speak to you, and behind that was someone who truly believed that if he or she spoke, someone would listen. It was that affirmation that always amazed me. Even the oddest, most peculiar book was written with that kind of courage -- the writer's belief that someone would find his or her book important to read. I was struck by how precious and foolish and brave that belief is, and how necessary, and how full of hope it is to collect these books and manuscripts and preserve them. It declares that stories matter, and so does every effort to create something that connects us to one another, and to our past, and to what is still to come.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book