Marti

“The world is not a safe place for us. There are cartographers who came and made a map of the world as they saw it. They did not leave a place for us to write our names on that map. But here we are, we're in it, this world that does not want us, a world that will never love us, a world that would choose to destroy us rather than make a space for us even though there is more than enough room.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“This is how colonialism works. It convinces us that the fallout from resistance is entirely our fault, that the immoral choice is resistance itself rather than the circumstances that demanded it.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“The next morning, I watched his older brother hold him in his arms as he looked at me with tears in his eyes. "It's a boy, Ari. It's a boy!" And I knew what he was thinking. And he's going to be straight. And he's going to give my parents the grandchildren I will never be able to give them.
Does being gay screw with our heads and our hearts?”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“The Hague Convention sought to make war more humane. We had reached a point in history where we believed it was possible to make war humane.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam