Maria Dellaporta

“Of course she died There's no other way she could have died. If she'd been dying for something, the world would have realized it was a stupid thing, and given her back.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“We forgot about them, but they never forgot about us. They always knew that somewhere out there they had competition, strange and soft and walking on two legs and defenseless in the water. Most of all, they never forgot that we were delicious.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“One of racism’s harms is the way it falls on the unexceptional Black person who is asked to be extraordinary just to survive—and, even worse, the Black screwup who faces the abyss after one error, while the White screwup is handed second chances and empathy. This shouldn't be surprising: One of the fundamental values of racism to White people is that it makes success attainable for even unexceptional Whites, while success, even moderate success, is usually reserved for extraordinary Black people.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“There's is something about a fight that makes you forget your troubles. Mainly it's that all your troubles are suddenly very small in the face of new problems swinging your way with sharp edges on them”
― Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns