Lore

“The need to call this thing “good” and this thing “bad,” this thing “white” and this thing “black,” was an impulse that Effia did not understand. In her village, everything was everything. Everything bore the weight of everything else.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“You cannot stick a knife in a goat and then say, "now I will remove my knife slowly - so let things be easy and clean; let there be no mess." There will always be blood.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“Why should I go further than I am able? Is it not enough for you that I am perfect?”
― William Carlos Williams

“Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love