Cobalt

“She could blame her father for instilling the sensible habit of getting the worst things out of the way as soon as possible instead of stewing over them. If one stewed and worried over those difficult things, one merely lived in the unpleasantness for even longer.”
― Colleen Gleason, Lady Darling Inquires After a Killer

“because you are vibrant and capable and I keep an ongoing list of all the vibrant and capable women in society. That can mean only one thing: You hid your vibrancy under a bushel. I do now know why you hid it, but I do know it was there, your grace, the whole time. And I think you are used to either hiding it or hiding from it, and I hope you realize you do not have to do that anymore. You can be just as vibrant and capable in Cambridgeshire as you are in London. It is not nearly as hard as you suppose.”
― Lynn Messina, A Pernicious Fabrication

“For Aquinas, the universe is our house, our home. Who would despoil or destroy one’s own home?”
― Matthew Fox, The Tao of Thomas Aquinas: Fierce Wisdom for Hard Times

“Perhaps the only thing we can say with real certainty is that, in terms of ancestry, we are all Africans.”
― David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity