Erin

“The King's shadow doesn't disappear altogether. I've learned that we all live with it, each in our own way.

Some people live huddled under the King's wings. I decided to confront him. Sometimes I'm amazed. The attacks scare me, they wound me, but they bring with them the memory of the things I've lived, the things I've learned.

My wound is also my cure.”
― Guilherme Petreca, Ye

“...it's okay to sometimes experience not knowing what to do next, to run into a barrier. It's okay to realize that life has a mysterious quality to it, it has an element of uncertainty, it's okay to realize that we do need help, that calling out for help is a very generous act because it allows others to help us and it allows us to be helped. Sometimes we're calling out for help. Sometimes we're offering hep, and then this hostile world becomes a very different place. It is a world where there is help being received and help being given, and in such a world this compelling determined world according to me loses some of its urgency and desperation. It's not so necessary in a generous world, in a world where help is available, to be so adamant about the world according to me.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an aesthetic sense that partially redeems the losses time brings and finds beauty in the faraway.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“I think sometimes that I became a historian because I didn't have a history, but also because I was interested in telling the truth in a family in which truth was an elusive entity.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost