Sharon

“Every human community will disappoint us, regardless of how well-intentioned or inclusive.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

“Samuel Vimes dreamed about Clues. He had a jaundiced view of Clues. He instinctively distrusted them. They got in the way. And he distrusted the kind of person who’d take one look at another man and say in a lordly voice to his companion, “Ah, my dear sir, I can tell you nothing except that he is a left-handed stonemason who has spent some years in the merchant navy and has recently fallen on hard times,” and then unroll a lot of supercilious commentary about calluses and stance and the state of a man’s boots, when exactly the same comments could apply to a man who was wearing his old clothes because he’d been doing a spot of home bricklaying for a new barbecue pit, and had been tattooed once when he was drunk and seventeen* and in fact got seasick on a wet pavement. What arrogance! What an insult to the rich and chaotic variety of the human experience!”
― Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

“I go back into the dark! Before the moon I was. No one knows, no one knows, no one can say what I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon. Who dares ask questions of the dark? Who’ll ask the dark its name?' The old woman was rocking, chanting, lost in her incantation; but Tenar sat upright, and split a reed down the center with her thumbnail.
'I will,' she said. She split another reed.
'I lived long enough in the dark,' she said”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu

“Anger is not a graceful emotion. I've never gotten mad and been like, I'm glad I behaved like that!

I feel weird about it every time.

Usually, knowing how weird I'm going to feel is enough to restrain me. But sometimes there's just so much of it, and it isn't going away, and you're tired, and you start to think, Hey...maybe this isn't such a bad thing...maybe I WANT this...

And then you get to see what the worst part of you looks like.”
― Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems