Shannon

“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Everything is a product of its time, and the whole point of progress is to make the future better than the present. People make mistakes, and people grow, and culture grows along with them.”
― Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

“The need of the world was like death, she thought – everyone knew about it, but the thought was so annihilating that they had to push it out of consciousness or it would crush them.”
― Larissa MacFarquhar, Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help

“but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West