Ivana - Diary of Difference

“Humans are spiteful creatures. They destroy more than they create. That is why I do not associate with them.”
― Kelly Risser, Never Forgotten

“I never imagined a single moment of acceptance could reverse a year of bitterness and prejudice.”
― Nadine Brandes, Fawkes

“A foundation of truth represents what life was intended to be.”
― Nadine Brandes, Fawkes

“Do not listen to your enemy, Odysseus had once told me. Look at them. It will tell you everything.

I looked. Armed and armored, she was (Athena), from head to foot, helmet, spear, aegis, greaves. A terrifying vision: the goddess of war, ready for battle. But why had she assembled such a panoply against me, who knew nothing of combat? Unless there was something else she feared, something that made her feel somehow stripped and weak.

Instinct carried me forward, the thousand hours I had spent in my father’s halls, and with Odysseus polymetis, man of so many wiles.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe