Jorie W

“They have no power to improve their lives, but they have the power to make others even more miserable. And the only way to prove to yourself that you have power is to use it.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“he still knows how to rouse his rabble, how to reach out to poor people, and sic them on other poor people. How much of this nonsense does he believe, I wonder, and how much does he say just because he knows the value of dividing in order to conquer and to rule?”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

“La gente lo ha capito lo stesso. Le voci sono bastate a non farlo adottare dalla com sotto il capovillaggio precedente. Naturalmente, io gli ho offerto il nome della com una mezza dozzina di volte, ormai".
"Se rinuncio a Ferrigno" replica Cutter. Fa ancora quel suo sorriso sottile.
Ykka abbassa la mano. Ha la mascella contratta. "Negare ciò che sei non ha impedito agli altri di saperlo".
"E ostentarlo non è ciò che ti ha salvato".”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“Diana and I are thinking seriously of promising each other that we will never marry but be nice old maids and live together forever. Diana hasn’t quite made up her mind though, because she thinks perhaps it would be nobler to marry some wild, dashing, wicked young man and reform him.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables