“I'm fine,"she said, keeping her head down,wiping the back of her hand across her eyes.It was probably too late,but she didn't want him to see she'd been crying.She was fourteen.That's not a child anymore, whatever dumbass old people might think.Parents and teachers,every-one---but friends most of all.All they ever want to do is keep you small.
They're scared of who you are becoming.
Of what you know.Of who you are.”
Source: The Possession
“I gasped. "Wait a minute! Am I a guinea pig? I'm a guinea pig!"
"No, it's not like that," she said.
I stared at her.
She stared at me.
I stared at her.
"Okay, it's exactly like that," she said.”
Source: Project Hail Mary
“My natural optimism just leads me to be skeptical.”
Source: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
“I love this country because it is my home, and my parents’ home, and my grandparents’ home, and because I was raised to believe in the opportunity and equality America promises, but this does not prevent me from seeing its problems, seeing all the ways it has failed its people again and again.”
Source: We Are Not Free
“Nothing is impossible, but still don't run to catch a mirage.”
“One component of infinity is the complete absence of time.”
Source: THE BOOK THAT HAPPENED – Is Reality but Sheer Coincidence?
“There was no meaning in why he was here, but he was, and that was enough.”
“Riegl also solved a paradox of academic doctrine, wedded to the ideal: its tendency to summon its own subversion by reality, or by lowly life. Now that the story line is the movement from touch-based art to vision-based art, the future is open-ended, for art can always be further intellectualized without worrying about a surfeit of sublimity or transcendence, just as low subject matter does not threaten to drag art back into the weeds of practical life.”
Source: A History of Art History
“It's a truism that we see the past as far more distant than it is in reality: my parents were adults before they could share bathrooms with white people; my grandmother was middle-aged before she could confidently enter a voting booth in Alabama. Yet these images fade easily into gentle sepia tones for me today. That's because it's safety, not wisdom, we're after when we look backward. We picture ugly things at a comfortable distance.
But Americans distort the past in other ways, too. We see horrible people as exceptional, and their many accomplices as mere captives of their times. We tell ourselves we would contain such wickedness if it arose today, because now we know better. We've learned. In our illusory past, progress has come in decisive and irrevocable strokes.”
Source: Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
“Your concept or perception of reality is not reality. When you are caught in your perceptions and ideas, you lose reality.”
Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation