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

“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

“Wylan needed to learn to take care of himself, but it would be nice if he could do it without getting on friendly terms with death”
― Leigh Bardugo