Deborah Pickstone

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
― Henry James

“‎W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century you need to have come to terms with at least two others. The key to learning something about the past might be a ruin or an archive but the means whereby we may understand it is--and always will be--ourselves.”
― Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites