Maria Dellaporta

“I learned not long ago that Pechorin had died upon returning from Persia. This news made me very glad: it gave me the right to publish these notes, and I took the opportunity to put my name on someone else's work.”
― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

“One of racism’s harms is the way it falls on the unexceptional Black person who is asked to be extraordinary just to survive—and, even worse, the Black screwup who faces the abyss after one error, while the White screwup is handed second chances and empathy. This shouldn't be surprising: One of the fundamental values of racism to White people is that it makes success attainable for even unexceptional Whites, while success, even moderate success, is usually reserved for extraordinary Black people.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Και τη θυρωρίνα που επιστρατευτηκε λόγω της ημέρας και κάθεται μουτρωμένη και βγάζει τα αλουμινόχαρτα απο τις μπόμπες με τη σαλάτα (που είναι οτι ειδεχθέστερο, γιατί τρως τη σαλάτα και μετά χαμογελάς πλατιά και σου κρέμεται το μαρούλι απο τον κυνόδοντα και όλοι το κοιτάζουν, αλλά κανένας δεν έχει το θάρρος να σου το πεί. Και μετά πηγαίνεις στο σπίτι και πας να πλυθείς, ανακαλύπτεις το μαρούλι και κόβεις τις φλέβες σου απο ντροπή.”
― Έλενα Ακρίτα, Η Έλενα στη χώρα των θαυμάτων

“Of course she died There's no other way she could have died. If she'd been dying for something, the world would have realized it was a stupid thing, and given her back.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep