Haley

“Why did humans give their offspring fake versions of predators that would happily eat those offspring? Those”
― Anne Bishop, Vision in Silver

“I had never fully understood our tradition- why women wailed so loudly and for so long after someone died. It was only now I realized that women wailed more on account of everything they never had a chance to say. All the questions they never asked. All the times we never really talked about the things that mattered most.
It was the one time that women could be angry. Be loud. Say anything. Yell. Purge the soul. And no one thought less of them. Everyone expected it.”
― Eucabeth A. Odhiambo, Auma's Long Run

“To confess the truth, I am afraid we often compliment what we call upper life, with too much injustice, at the expense of the lower. As it is no rare thing to see instances which degrade human nature in persons of the highest birth and education, so I apprehend that examples of whatever is really great and good have been sometimes found amongst those who have wanted all such advantages. In reality, palaces, I make no doubt, do sometimes contain nothing but dreariness and darkness, and the sun of righteousness hath shone forth with all its glory in a cottage.”
― Henry Fielding, Amelia - Complete

“Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.”
― Thomas Otway