Abbey

“And I get up because it is the only thing I can do.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones

“As had happened with Julius Caesar, it turned out that the people of Rome were actually quite keen on Gaius and were not fans of presumptuous senators and magistrates making unilateral decisions about the nature of Roman government with swords. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, they believed, not from some farcical bloody murder. Strange men in corridors distributing stab wounds was no basis for a system of government.”
― Emma Southon, A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome

“If Christianity were judged entirely by the quality of Christians, it would be a tough sale.”
― Michael Gerson

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts”
― Daniel Patrick Moynihan