Maria Dellaporta

“It seems to me that lawyers can justify almost anything to themselves as long as it's legal. But you can make anything legal when you put a gun to parliament's head.”
― Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts

“Generally speaking, individual Black and Latinx and Asian and Middle Eastern and European immigrants are uniquely resilient and resourceful—not because they are Nigerian or Cuban or Japanese or Saudi Arabian or German but because they are immigrants. In fact, immigrants and migrants of all races tend to be more resilient and resourceful when compared with the natives of their own countries and the natives of their new countries.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“There's is something about a fight that makes you forget your troubles. Mainly it's that all your troubles are suddenly very small in the face of new problems swinging your way with sharp edges on them”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

“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