Elizabeth

“I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday, sweet and beloved, between its leaves.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of the Island: Special Edition

“In Ojibwe and Cree culture, leadership didn't mean power; it meant caring.”
― Tanya Talaga, All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward

“San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run...but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant...
History is hard to know...but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time - and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“Numbers never lie, after all: they simply tell different stories depending on the math of the tellers.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, The Devil's Highway: A True Story