Noah P.

“Tell them they can be great someday, like us. Tell them they belong among us, no matter how we treat them. Tell them they must earn the respect which everyone else receives by default. Tell them there is a standard for acceptance; that standard is simply perfection. Kill those who scoff at these contradictions, and tell the rest that the dead deserved annihilation for their weakness and doubt. Then they’ll break themselves trying for what they’ll never achieve.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“Sometimes the whole of marriage was a cover story.”
― John le Carré, Silverview

“You forgive if you can forgive yourself. Or live with what you've done. If you cannot live with what you've done, you cannot live with what others have done either.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne

“The body fades. A leader who lasts relies on more.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season