Nancy

“If we knew everything that was ever said about us and if at the same time we took every word at face value, we would remain friends with no one.”
― Hugh Prather

“The most valuable lesson I’ve learned as a journalist is that everybody is interesting if you ask the right questions. If someone is dull or uninteresting, it’s on you.”
― Kate Murphy, You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters

“Our past is bleak. Our future dim. But I am not reasonable. A reasonable man adjusts to his environment. And unreasonable man does not. All progress, therefore, depends on the unreasonable man. I prefer not to adjust to my environment. I refuse the prison of ‘I’ and choose the open spaces of ‘we.’ ”
― Toni Morrison, The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom

“Alas, rights are – as indeed people say of children themselves – only ever on loan to us. Where they become sufficiently inconvenient to the powerful, those rights can be revoked in an instant.”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting