Nora Peevy

“Was this, she thought, what happened when one made friends with a married woman? One automatically got the husband too? - like a crochet pattern, coming free with a magazine?”
― Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests

“Mitakuye oyasin—we are all related. So”
― Win Blevins, Stone Song: A Novel of the Life of Crazy Horse

“in the great timescale and reality of the natural world, a fence is an entirely artificial and temporary boundary, like a line drawn in the wet sand at the verge of the ocean, telling the waves they can come no farther. The waves don’t care—nature does not acknowledge human lines or meanings. The waves will sweep over that line and dissolve it, given a short amount of time. The forest will sweep over this fence and dissolve it, given sufficient time.”
― Ned Hayes, The Eagle Tree

“In her 2008 paper “Who Joins the Military?: A Look at Race, Class, and Immigration Status” Amy Lutz concluded that “as family income increases, the likelihood of having ever served in the military decreases.” Further, she found “low representation of the children of the very rich” within the armed forces and that “the highest income quartile was significantly less likely to have served than the lowest.” She concludes that “the economic elite are very unlikely to serve in the military” and that the “all-volunteer force continues to see over-representation of the working and middle classes, with fewer incentives for upper class participation.”36 It”
― Christopher L. Hayes, Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy