Maria

“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

“It's good to be a little lonely. It reminds you of the importance of other people. A person too comfortable in loneliness loses touch with the wonderful things. Laughing alone in a room should always be tinged with a bit of sadness. But a little bit of loneliness serves another purpose, too. It's a good reminder of the small piece of land that is your self.”
― Dana Czapnik, The Falconer

“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

“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