Hanna

“It’s not always the truth that survives, but the stories we wish to believe. The legends lie. They smooth over imperfections to tell a good tale, or to instruct us how we should behave, or to assign glory to victors and shame those who falter. Perhaps there were some in Sparta who embodied those myths. Perhaps. But how we are remembered is less important than what we do now.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore

“we consider death rituals savage only when they don’t match our own.”
― Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

“There is a freedom found in decomposition, a body rendered messy, chaotic, and wild.”
― Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

“In death, corpses don't hold themselves together. They no longer have to play by the living's rules.”
― Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death