Hannah Deitch

“When you don’t have money, your imagination is forced to expand beyond the limits of what’s tolerable to rich people, who don’t need imagination at all. When you are rich, the opposite happens: the world shrinks to particularities and patterns. I can drink water only at this temperature. I can sleep on beds only with this thread count, this mattress height. I can’t live in a house without a dishwasher, an in-unit washer/dryer, a view of the ocean. The imagination folds in on itself. Space crystallizes and becomes intractable, opaque. When you are poor, space does the inverse: it hollows out. Anything can be a door. Anything can be a place to rest.”
― Hannah Deitch, Killer Potential

“You can share a life, not a body. You might spend all your time with another person, but you are not inside their skin, wandering the landscape of their mind. You can feel you know them to their very bones, but it is only that. A feeling you have.”
― Hannah Deitch, Killer Potential