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It’s funny, the way we talk about terrorism nowadays as though only Muslims and Arabs threaten our society. I’m afraid my understanding of terrorism was shaped long before September 11. It was the fear, the arbitrariness, the violence that
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“He talked about the ocean between people. And how the whole point of everything is to find a shore worth swimming to.”
― Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
― Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
“Then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.”
― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“No human on God's earth is a nobody.”
― Twenties Girl
― Twenties Girl
“Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.”
― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
― The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“There's this ayah from the Quran that my dad always quotes when he sees something bad on TV. A fire or a flood or a bombing. "Whoever kills one person, it is as if he has killed all of mankind... And whoever saves one person, it is as if he has saved all of mankind." When I was a little kid, that always made me feel better. Because no matter how bad things get there are always people who rush in to help. And according to my dad they are blessed.”
― Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal
― Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal
Carrie’s 2025 Year in Books
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