Havelock

“A guy who advertises his own goodness is just another kind of asshole.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“Imagine learning at such a young age that your very appearance—your very identity—is enough to trigger such confusion and animosity. Imagine knowing that people will hate you for no reason other than you are who you are”
― Thomas Beatie, Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Pregnancy

“And then it arose and struck Vimes that, in her own special category, she was quite beautiful; this was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought he was worth smiling at. She couldn’t do worse, but then, he couldn’t do better. So maybe it balanced out. She wasn’t getting any younger but then, who was? And she had style and money and common-sense and self-assurance and all the things that he didn’t, and she had opened her heart, and if you let her she could engulf you; the woman was a city.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by payment plans”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own