Shannah

“A nationalist...is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best.”
― timothy snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“Grief is like a well: you can never truly leave it but the walls grow wider and wider until one day you look up and realise that you can see the sky again.”
― M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

“I have never needed a man to save me and I do not intend to start now.”
― M.A. Kuzniar, Upon a Frosted Star

“She wanted a world where girls did not need to grow a spine of steel just to survive. Where they could be as soft and silly as they wanted. Where they could walk into a room full of new people and see endless possibilities instead of potential threats.”
― C.L. Herman, The Deck of Omens