Theresa

“Nostalgia is the best and the worst feeling - complex - nothing has the ability to so delight and wound us simultaneously, except perhaps for love.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Library Trilogy

“The surest way to keep a problem from being solved is to deny that problem exists. Telling people not to complain is a way of keeping social issues from being addressed. It trivializes the grievances of the vulnerable, making the burdened feel like burdens. Telling people not to complain is an act of power, a way of asserting that one's position is more important than another one's pain. People who say "stop complaining" always have the right to stop listening. But those who complain have often been denied the right to speak.”
― Sarah Kendzior, The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior

“Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“It's always the books you don't have that call to you, you know that. Not the ones on your shelf. They can wait.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Book That Wouldn’t Burn