Hannah Simpson

“Gambling is throwing money away," Emily said. "Spending hundreds of dollars on clothes you'll never wear is throwing money away. Buying books is an investment in the future."

"Emily's right," Nina said. "Where there are books, there's hope. I have stacks of novels I haven't gotten to yet. It's the best reason to go on living I can think of.”
― Julia Claiborne Johnson, Better Luck Next Time

“You can’t trauma-proof life, and you can’t hurt-proof your relationships. You have to accept you will cause harm to yourself and others. But you can also fuck up, really badly, and not learn anything from it except that you fucked up. It’s the same with oppression. You don’t gain any special knowledge from being marginalized. But you do gain something from stepping outside your hurt and examining the scaffolding of your oppression.”
― Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

“Cristina Belgiojoso, who was so close to Lafayette at the end of his life, watched Lafayette’s reputation tarnished by the hands of more cynical commentators like Chateaubriand. “When he is given his place in history,” she said in 1850, “it will be recognized, I am sure of this, that his political mistakes were caused by too high opinion of the human species and of men; he judged the latter according to himself. One can understand the serious errors he made in attributing to others the integrity, the uprightness, and the sincerity that were only in him.”57”
― Mike Duncan, Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette and the Age of Revolution

“Nice is the enemy of interesting.”
― Miranda Cowley Heller, The Paper Palace