"I'm fighting alone, every day. I fight with the hell that I survived. I fight with the fact of my own humanity. I fight with the idea that death is the only way of escaping this fact."
- Han Kang
"Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim"
- Eduardo Galeano
"There's a societal push for conformity in all ways. There's less tolerance of difference. And so maybe for some people having a label is better. It can confer a sense of hope and direction. (interview..."
- Jon Ronson
"It's better to lose something than never to have had"
- Jonathan Safran Foer
"It seems fine to revolt in front of all,but apologizing fro the same in a similar situation makes you feel smallIt is an irony! that's what I call.."
- Kruthika Swaminathan
"Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Well, I want novels,' said Tessa. 'Or poetry. Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into livestock.' Will's eyes glittered. 'I think we may have a cope of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland abo..."
- Cassandra Clare
"Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of certain kinds of deception"
"If you're as good as your word, words should be good enough."
- Rainbow Rowell
"We think we are so strong but it is only when others try to prey on our weaknesses that we realize how frail we truly are.”-Skyla (from Twiceborn)"
- JP Robinson