Damian

“Diversity is what gives colour and texture to our life on earth. Art, architecture, music, stories, celebrations, food, drink, dance: all of these are particular. None of them is an abstract universal.”
― Jonathan Sacks, Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence

“You’ve come too far and worked too hard to return to a life of dishonesty and denial and emotional abuse. You deserve someone who treats you better, much better—”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“In the words of the American urbanist Lewis Mumford, writing in 1961, suburbia was “a multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to a common mold.”
― Tom Standage, A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next

“Ultimately, though, like so many things, it was a matter of perception—how we decided to look at what was in front of us.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming