Beth

“Maladict had hallucinations, but Wazzer had a certainty you could bend steel around. It was the opposite of a hallucination, somehow. It was as if she could see what was real and you couldn't.”
― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

“The past requires not only that we study it and know it, but also that we learn its lessons - for this simple reason: evil is not just a thing of the past.”
― Tzvetan Todorov, The Fragility of Goodness: Why Bulgaria's Jews Survived the Holocaust

“It seems that, once introduced into public life, evil easily perpetuates itself, whereas good is always difficult, rare, and fragile. And yet possible.”
― Tzvetan Todorov, The Fragility of Goodness: Why Bulgaria's Jews Survived the Holocaust

“When I left class that day, I did not tell them what I myself was just beginning to discover: how similar our own fate was becoming to Gatsby's. He wanted to fulfill his dream by repeating the past, and in the end he discovered that the past was dead, the present a sham, and there was no future. Was this not similar to our revolution, which had come in the name of our collective past and had wrecked our lives in the name of dream?”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books