Kaycee

“It’s more about our own state of grace, of protecting our spirits from their denigration of us; about knowing that our struggle is rooted in morality, and that the struggle itself is not against them as a people, but against what infects them—the idea that they are a better form of human, that God prefers them, that they are inherently a superior race, and we are disposable.”
― Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

“Abandoning the imposition of a calendar helped me understand that time isn’t real; it has no logic in the absence of hope or anticipation.”
― Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

“Butchers we are, that is true. But butchers, also, and butchers of the bloodiest badge have been all Martial Commanders whom the world invariably delights to honor.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick: or, the White Whale

“Look to the future, child,” her father used to say. “This is why our feet point forward, not back.”
― Thrity Umrigar, Honor