Patricia Williams

“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers

“the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“In every village there is a candle, the teacher;
and an extinguisher, the clergy.”
― Victor Hugo

“The best moments in life are not the kind many historians record.”
― James Lee Burke, Jolie Blon's Bounce