Monika

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
― Brené Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.

“Critics of correctional education say that prisoners are motivated only by the time cut. (In some states, they can reduce their sentence by a year or two by earning a degree.) I have two responses to that. One: Why is a prisoner’s motivation to earn a degree so that he can return to his family sooner viewed more negatively than a campus student’s motivation to earn a degree so he can make more money? And, two: What about the motivation of a prisoner, like Newton, who is serving a sentence of life with no possibility of parole?”
― Laura Bates, Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard

“Disturbing as it may be, the raw truth is that often enough, the people showing up to your medical emergency do so because this was the only respectable job they could get with a GED and a clean driving record.”
― Kevin Hazzard, A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back

“when you come out on the other side of this, the amount of power you walk away with is going to blow your fucking mind.”
― Jen Waite, A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal