Jill Upton(ogood)

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“I saw children and grandchildren and rocking chairs on the back porch of the house overlooking the river and two old people, dying on the same day because the world would never be cruel enough to make either one of us exist without the other.”
― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World

“Humans were the biggest hypocrites among all species, for they banned abortions for Aryan women and yet they had no qualms about throwing Jewish children into gas chambers. They talked about helping fellow men and yet turned entire ships full of refugees away from their shores, condemning them to death. They spoke at length of their Christian values, but when it came to offering shelter to the persecuted, they shut their doors and chased the invaders off their property with guns and curses. “Because”
― Ellie Midwood, The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz

“You can’t live in the past, I tell myself, but you can visit. And you can bring bits of it into the present, when you need them.”
― Laura Pearson, The Last List of Mabel Beaumont