Category: Quotes

from Deeplight

It is easy to love power, because power tells you it is majesty and beauty and greatness.

The secret we all know is that governments, countries, laws, they’re all just a bunch of stuff we made up. They exist only as long as we all keep agreeing they...

from The Light brigade by

What I learned, as I looked back on those times, was that the lies are what sustained us. The lies kept us going. Gave us hope. Without lies we have to...

from Tallgrass

Conservation biologists have given us a term for what we already knew – that many people are simply oblivious to the natural world, especially plants. Charismatic megafauna like polar bears and...

from Us against You by

It’s so easy to place your hope in people. To think that the world can change overnight. We demonstrate after an attack, we donate money after a disaster, we lay our...

from Us against you by

Perhaps one day he’ll find words for that feeling of being different. How physical it is. Exclusion is a form of exhaustion that eats its way into your skeleton. People who...

from Us against You by

It’s always the aggressors’ feelings we have to defend. As if they’re the ones who need our understanding. Fredrik Backman – Us against You – pg. 280