Kirbi

“Beheading a Queen had not alarmed the populace as much as appointing one Finance Minister would.”
― Margaret George, The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers

“because I knew nothing, nothing was beneath me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I know what it means to hunger without being hungry. My father believes hunger is in the mind. I know differently. I know that hunger is in the mind and the body and the heart and the soul.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility. We are often taught we have no control over our "feelings." Yet most of us will accept that we choose our actions, that intention will inform what we do. We also accept that our actions have consequences. To think of actions shaping feelings is one way we rid ourselves of conventionally accepted assumptions such as that parents love their children, or that one simply "falls" in love without exercising will or choice, that there are such things as "crimes of passion," i.e., he killed her because he loved her so much. If we were constantly remembering that love is as love does, we would not use the word in a manner that devalues and degrades its meaning. When we are loving we openly and honestly express care, affection, respect, commitment, and trust.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions