Megan

“The soul dies. The human soul is made of the same material as the human body. The fact that we cannot soul in a particular organ only means that it's made exceedingly minute particles interlaced through the veins and flesh. Our instruments are not fine enough to weight the soul. At the moment of our death, it dissolves, like the case of wine who's bouquet has evaporated. Or of a perfume who's exquisite scent has dispersed into the air.”
― Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

“We believe the one who has power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must 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 get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“How could he explain to Marjorie that he wasn't supposed to be here? Alive. Free. That the fact that he had been born, that he wasn't in a jail cell somewhere, was not by dint of his pulling himself up by the bootstraps, not by hard work or belief in the American Dream, but by mere chance. He had only heard tell of his great-grandpa H from Ma Willie, but those stories were enough to make him weep and to fill him with pride. Two-Shovel H they had called him. But what had they called his father or his father before him? What of the mothers? They had been products of their time, and walking in Birmingham now, Marcus was an accumulation of these times. That was the point.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing