Hanna

“Fear is a foreign land I shall never visit and a language that will never cross my tongue.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore

“Do you know the Suli have no words to say ‘I’m sorry’?”

“What do you say when you step on someone’s foot?”

“I don’t step on people’s feet.”

“You know what I mean.”

“We say nothing. We know the slight was not deliberate. We live in tight quarters, traveling together. There’s no time to constantly be apologizing for existing. But when someone does wrong, when we make mistakes, we don’t say we’re sorry. We promise to make amends.”

“I will.”

“Mati en sheva yelu. This action will have no echo. It means we won’t repeat the same mistakes, that we won’t continue to do harm.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“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

“Nothing is unfixable”
― Rick Riordan