Ciera

“We shouldn't be afraid of the obvious, because stories are about life, and life is full of obvious things like food and sleep and love and courage which you don't stop needing just because you're a good reader.”
― Philip Pullman, Dæmon Voices

“This strength of feeling over classic stories being ruined wasn't around when the Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist was remade into a film in which the lead character was cast in the image of a cartoon cat.”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

“[Art] must reflect the world in all its brutality and beauty, not in hopes of changing it but in the mean and selfish desire to not be enrolled in its lie, to not be coopted by the television dreams, to not ignore the great crimes all around us.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“I'll never again speak to many of the people who loved me into this moment, just as you will never speak to many of the people who loved you into your now. So we raise a glass to them--and hope that perhaps somewhere, they are raising a glass to us.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet