Leanne

“If ever there was a prime-time trigger for PTSD you couldn't do much better than this, but lucky for Norm, the crowd, America, the forty-million-plus TV viewing audience, Bravos can deal, oh yes! Pupils dilated, pulse and blood pressure through the roof, limbs trembling with stress-reflex cortisol rush, but it's cool, it's good, their shit's down tight, no Vietnam-vet crackups for Bravo squad! You can march these boys straight into sound-and-light show hell and Bravos can deal, but damn, isn't it rude to put them through it.”
― Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

“Dincolo de zodiac, se va-ntinde, afară încolo
De-ale soarelui căi și pe unde de cer purtătorul
Atlas rotește cu umăru-i bolta-n podoabă de aștri.”
― Alexandru Mitru, Legendele Olimpului [Vol. I+II]

“We must believe in our souls that we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful, and we must walk the streets of life every day with this sense of dignity and this sense of somebody-ness.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys