Tamara

“Cops before breakfast. Before coffee even. As if Mondays weren't bad enough.”
― Josh Lanyon, Fatal Shadows

“Surely the Board knows what democracy is. It is the line that forms on the right. It is the don’t in Don’t Shove. It is the hole in the stuffed shirt through which the sawdust slowly trickles; it is the dent in the high hat. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half the people are right more than half the time. It is the feeling of privacy in the voting booths, the feeling of communion in the libraries, the feeling of vitality everywhere. Democracy is the score at the beginning of the ninth. It is an idea which hasn’t been disproved yet, a song the words of which have not gone bad. It’s the mustard on the hot dog and the cream in the rationed coffee. Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.”
― E. B. White, The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters

“Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.”
― Baltasar Gracián

“Letting go does not mean
that you are
giving up
ir that you are
weak.
It could just mean that
you are no longer
allowing what hurts you
to control you.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain