Natasha

“but the older he got, the better he understood; forgiveness was an act done after the fact - a piece of the bad deeds future - and if you point the people's eyes to the future they might not see what is being done to hurt them in the present.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“What was needed was a large-scale comparative study of different approaches to inoculation to discover which, in practical terms, was likely to be successful. But how to design such an experiment in the eighteenth century? There was only one answer: orphans.”
― Gavin Weightman, The Great Inoculator: The Untold Story of Daniel Sutton and his Medical Revolution

“Dad preferred that I lean on him, and his philosophies, rather than on those of other people. So while he encouraged me to have an open mind, and to become my own person, and to think for myself, he was very wary about the person I was becoming, and the people I was listening to.”
― Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

“The old and the dead are the most rewarding people to idolize, because they know things that we don't.”
― Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth