Maria

“They say that suffering is a good school. Yes, true. But happiness is the best university.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

“Unable to express his sense of shock and abhorrence openly, let alone to alter the course of events, he had to force his emotional response inwards where it grew into a gnawing and profound sense of shame.”
― Nicholas Stargardt, The German War: A Nation Under Arms

“Claude Lévi-Strauss once observed that, “for the majority of the human species, and for tens of thousands of years, the idea that humanity includes every human being on the face of the earth does not exist at all. The designation stops at the border of each tribe, or linguistic”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

“Maybe her method of protest is just not participating. Maybe there's something quietly revolutionary in not longing to be beautiful.”
― Dana Czapnik, The Falconer