Joni Allison

“Who defines what is weakness? I’d wondered. Isn’t it only the strong who get to decide that? Isn’t it only the strong who have the power to act on what they decide? How can that be right or fair or good?”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“We have come to confuse information with understanding.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“Censura praevia or censura repressiva, the effect is the same. Either way, a book is destroyed. Better you do it than have us so intellectually enslaved that we do it for you.”
― Geraldine Brooks, People of the Book

“Like opening a can of mushroom soup and finding tomato instead; be grateful and eat it anyway.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells