Melanie

“In all things purely social we can be as separate as the five fingers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

“But she’s only a woman!” The watch captain shook his head again. “So was Helen of Troy, sir. Look what she started.”
― Ruth Downie, Terra Incognita

“The modern world is insane, not so much because it admits the abnormal as because it cannot recover the normal.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils

“The way I see it, my ancestors put a lot of effort into getting out of the goddamn ocean and I don’t think I should throw all of that hard work back in their faces.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Long Earth