Ami

“The OSS and the SOE learned early on that lone saboteurs can take down their targets more effectively than fleets of bomber planes; that small groups of people on foot can go where squadrons of tanks can't; that ordinary people with local knowledge can foil the plans of occupying generals-that, in short, the monumental power Hitler's regime worshipped could be outmaneuvered by precisely the weakness he despised in others.”
― Elyse Graham, Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

“You want to have sex with me because I make you feel safe. That’s what you’re saying, right?”
“Yes.”
“Well, that’s kind of an insult, Shiloh.”
She looked shocked. “Why is that an insult? There’s nothing better than feeling safe. And probably nothing more rare.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Slow Dance

“So we’re like Spotify, but for evil.” “We’re much less evil than Spotify. We actually pay a living wage to the people whose work we’re selling.”
― John Scalzi, Starter Villain

“In the United States, fascism is on the rise. Libraries are under attack. Some pundits ask why universities bother with departments that don’t just teach students to write computer code. Violent bigotry is fashionable again, and for many people, the appeal of politics is the opportunity to impose cruelty on others. The admonition to remember has never seemed so important.”
― Elyse Graham, Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II