Beth

“I liked my scotch undiluted, like I liked my truth. Unfortunately, undiluted truth was as affordable as eighteen-year-old single malt scotch. What about those who have not learned the best of what was thought and said?”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“replied, there is more. There is the unseen, waiting to be seen, existing only in the spaces we admit we do not see yet.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Pet

“But in this notebook I would reconstruct the story I had begun, the story I kept beginning, until I had a story.”
― Percival Everett, James

“I like this job. I can’t right now think of a better purpose in life than to be a teacher. To teach feels like you are a guardian of time itself, protecting the future happiness of the world via the minds that are yet to shape it. It isn’t playing the lute for Shakespeare, or the piano at Ciro’s, but it’s something as good. And goodness has its own kind of harmony.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time