Claire

“I have a whole life to tell; I have nothing left to lose and few to offend.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“[...] ethnography is what you do when you try to understand people by allowing their lives to mold your own as fully and genuinely as possible.”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

“Morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“But yes,” he said wearily. “As I could, I loved you. Now will you go? Live.” “I, too,” she said. “In a childish way, as girls love heroes that come in the night, I loved you.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower