Joanna

“But mercy ceases to be a virtue when it enables further injustice.”
― Brent Weeks, The Blood Mirror

“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.”
― Sarah Grimké

“You should be able to strip a man naked and throw him out with nothing on him. By the end of the day, the man should be clothed and fed. By the end of the week, he should own a horse. And by the end of a year he should own a business and have money in the bank.”
― Rick Rescorla

“That was our mistake, I think. One of many mistakes. To believe that boys were acting with a logic that we could someday understand. To believe that their actions had any meaning beyond thoughtless impulse. We were like conspiracy theorists, seeing portent and intention in every detail, wishing desperately that we mattered enough to be the object of planning and speculation. But they were just boys. Silly and young and straightforward; they weren't hiding anything.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls