Alex

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
― audre lorde

“They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were ignorant of only ordinary things.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft