Columbus Trompeter

“I have decided it's my mind that's woman. It's my narrator. It's my relationship to myself, and oddly, nothing at all to do with my body.”
― Sara Pascoe

“To kill one individual, that is, to subtract fifty years to the total sum of human lives, was criminal. But to subtract fifty million years was not considered criminal. Really, isn't that absurd?”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“We need to accept our ignorance and say ‘I don’t know’ more often.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“No one asks to be born. And no one wants to die. We don’t bring ourselves into the world, and when it’s time for us to leave, the decision will not be ours to make. But what we do with the time in between the day we are born and the day we die, that is what constitutes a human life. You will have to make choices—and those choices will map out the shape and course of your life. We are all cartographers—all of us. We all want to write our names on the map of the world.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World