Denise

“People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.”
― Patrick Ness, More Than This

“My father used to say that opression isn't a finite state. It's a weight that is carried until it becomes too heavy, and then it is thrown off. Not without struggle, not without pain, but he believed the weight would always, always be fought and overcome.”
― Tracy Banghart, Grace and Fury

“But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.”
― Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life

“Anything that kills hope is a sin.”
― Gayle Forman, I Was Here