Hallie

“If the Bill of Rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed either by private individuals or by public officials, it is surely only because our forefathers, despite their considerable wisdom and foresight, could conceive of no such problem.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“Fuck politeness.” Fuck the way we were socialized. Fuck the expectation that we always put other people’s needs first. And while we’re at it, fuck the patriarchy!”
― Karen Kilgariff, Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide

“Identifying who began something like this is like picking out the stone that began an avalanche. It began somewhere, true enough [...] but once it well and truly begins, we are all just stones moving together. One stone rolling down a mountain changes nothing unless others move with it.”
― Shane Arbuthnott, Terra Nova

“A book is made of paper but a story is a tree.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea