“Not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it.”
“As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.”
“history proves that the winning forces are those who put survival first and killing second”
“No people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.”
“You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.”
“You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot. ”