Tazzy

“Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Changing your beliefs with every change of monarch was called “policy,” and people who did it were “politicians.”
― Ken Follett, A Column of Fire

“She looks down at her bleeding cuticles, the dry, ragged skin of her fingertips, and she says what she believes to be true: nothing escaped her. It turns out that no one believes her anyway, and that lack of belief in her festers, infects her through and through—because, in her heart, she wants to be an honest person, and she thought she was. But she is not fully honest with anyone, not even with herself. It turns out she cannot give voice to uncertainty; this is not allowed. She does not need to be told this to know it is true. So she becomes quiet; she continues her journey inward, a journey she will be on for years, alone, unable to share with anyone, not her family, not her friends, not her lover.”
― Katrin Schumann, The Forgotten Hours

“She wanted a balanced life but had only guesses, wishes, and fears when what she needed was answers. CHAPTER 5 Night had fallen by the time Whit climbed the bluestone steps to”
― Sonja Yoerg, True Places