April H

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“It may seem strange that people who have already obtained a position of power through violence, invest so much time into justifying their plunder with words. But even plunderers are human beings, whose violent ambitions must contend with the guilt that gnaws at them when they meet the eyes of their victims. And so a story must be told, one that raises a wall between themselves, and those they seek to throttle and rob.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

“Memory’s oldest trick is convincing us of its accuracy.”
― Leif Enger, Virgil Wander

“Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.”
― Leif Enger