Kristina

“Throughout history, all dictators, tyrants, and oppressors, whatever their ideology—whether Aryan, African, Asian, Arab, Slav, or any other racial background; whether defenders of popular revolutions, or the privileges of the upper classes, or God’s mandate, or martial law—have had one thing in common: the vicious persecution of the written word. Books are extremely dangerous; they make people think.”
― Antonio Iturbe, The Librarian of Auschwitz

“There’s no force on Earth as strong as a woman who is good and fed up.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, Undercover Bromance

“After quarantine, when kids returned to the classroom, there was a chance to start over, to make education work better, but it’s the same old impractical schedule as when Diana was a kid, and that was some eighty years ago.”
― Katie M. Flynn, The Companions

“It’s a bizarre but widespread myth that only heroes have good qualities, and the only qualities heroes have are good; villains are, by definition, all bad. Bullshit.”
― K.J. Parker, Prosper's Demon