Mia

“xxx all souls are equal in heaven.

Only in heaven, I thought. And this is not heaven. This is a place for snakes and ladders, and though I was once high up on a ladder propped up against the Tree of Life, now I've slid down a snake. How gratifying for the others to witness my fall!”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Why bother to make music when the silence and wind are so much larger? Why light lamps when the darkness will inevitably snuff them?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Myth and legend give way to history, which gives way again to myth, like curtains parting and meeting again on either side of a performance. xxx All good stories travel from the outside in.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“We are nothing if not thorough in our deception of others.”
― Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer