Elaine

“We believe the one who has the power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must always ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there, you begin to get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“And good men can do terrible things, I know that. But it’s usually by accident and just once, it’s not premeditated and the behaviour doesn’t repeat.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“From liber, his father has told him. Books. Which comes from the word meaning the inner bark of trees, which comes from the word for to strip, to peel.”
― Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

“A book, I soon learned, was time travel. Each page held irrefutable power.”
― Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon: A Memoir