Ava

“There is no intoxicant more dangerous than the passion of love; intoxicating both the holder and the beholder.”
― Huseyn Raza

“It depressed him to consider how much energy he had wasted, over the years, in the self-denying posture of apology. From now on, whatever else his life might hold, there would be no more apologies.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

“If there were ever such a thing as a unique opinion, history would probably be less inclined to repeat itself.”
― Gavin Mills

“He is the one wife belonging to many white men. Anatole explained it this way: Like a princess in a story, Congo was born too rich for her own good, and attracted attention far and wide from men who desire to rob her blind. The United States has now become the husband of Zaire’s economy, and not a very nice one. Exploitive and condescending, in the name of steering her clear of the moral decline inevitable to her nature.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible