Nicolette

“Did he know, or only guess at Achilles’ destiny? As he lay alone in his rose-colored cave, had some glimmer of prophecy come to him? Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“It is always important to remember that for the bulk of coffee producers, flavour is not the main reason they have selected a certain variety to grow.”
― James Hoffmann, The World Atlas of Coffee: 2nd edition

“They might permit a king to burn their fields or rape their daughters, as long as payment was made. But you did not touch a man’s sons. For this, the nobles would riot. We all knew the rules; we clung to them to avoid the anarchy that was always a hairsbreadth away. Blood feud. The servants made the sign against evil.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“If the people taking decisions that affect all of us are all white, able-bodied men (nine times out of ten from America), that too constitutes a data gap – in the same way that not collecting information on female bodies in medical research is a data gap.”
― Caroline Criado-Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men