Bud Bill

“Though I knew I shouldn’t have cared, the words still hurt like pinches, and pinches can be very painful when done in the same place many times in a row.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Zahrah the Windseeker

“While the melodrama of hucking crates of tea into Boston Harbor continues to inspire civic-minded hotheads to this day, it’s worth remembering the hordes of stoic colonial women who simply swore off tea and steeped basil leaves in boiling water to make the same point. What’s more valiant: littering from a wharf or years of doing chores and looking after children from dawn to dark without caffeine?”
― Sarah Vowell, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

“A book's a strange thing. It's ideas, feelings. It's fragile and complicated. You can't make them like refrigerators or cars.”
― Étienne Davodeau, Les Ignorants : Récit d'une initiation croisée

“You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the humanitarian upside of sticking with the British Empire.”
― Sarah Vowell, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States