Nicola

“Feeling in control makes most people feel secure and safe. It doesn’t matter how much actual control we have.
Every human is technically a meaningless sack of carbon clinging to a rock hurtling through the uncaring void around trillions of tonnes of nuclear fire, but that’s too big for a single human to be aware of.”
― Dean Burnett, Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To

“Nothing learned is ever quite wasted.”
― Ellis Peters, The Raven in the Foregate

“Men drunk with ambition and power do not ground their weapons, nor stop to recognise the fellow-humanity of those they are about to slay.”
― Ellis Peters, Dead Man's Ransom

“... cooptation of the rhetoric of beauty, morality and duty into the realm of commercial life set in train the development of other rhetorics designed to sell growing numbers of products that promised both surface change and inner transformation.”
― Elaine Stratford, Home, Nature, and the Feminine Ideal: Geographies of the Interior and of Empire