Maria

“Insanity triumphed because sane people were silent.”
― Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

“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

“Outrage is conditioned not by the nature of the atrocity but by the affiliation of the victim and the perpetrator. Should the state be accorded more leniency because, legally speaking, it has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force? Or, conversely, should we hold soldiers and cops to a higher standard than paramilitaries?”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

“Anyone who says that if you do things a certain way you'll be guaranteed happiness is selling you something. No one knows their own destiny in advance.”
― Dana Czapnik, The Falconer