Aimee Dars

“All my life I have overheard, all my life I have listened to what people will let slip when they think you are part of their we. A we is so powerful. It is the most corrupt and formidable institution on earth. Its hands are full of the crispest and most persuasive currency. Its mouth is full of received, repeating language. The we closes its ranks to protect the space inside it, where the air is different. It does not protect people. It protects its own shape.”
― Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy

“He was as incapable of imagining pain or danger to himself as he was incapable of conceiving the pain he caused others.”
― Graham Greene

“You are a pug! Master of the universe! King of the curly tails! You can do anything! You can lick your own nose, for goodness sake.”
― Gemma Correll, The Little Pocket Book of Pug Wisdom: Lessons in life and love for the well-rounded pug

“So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem worth even starting a train of thought.”
― Graham Greene, The Quiet American