Taylor Pumphrey

“When the moon gets bored, it kills whales. Blue whales and fin whales and humpback, sperm, and orca whales: centrifugal forces don’t discriminate.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“But the thing is, we’re all like that. Nobody wakes up when they want to. Nobody did all of their reading (except maybe the crazy people who win the prizes . . .). We have these impossibly high standards and we’ll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that’s okay.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“No single act of generosity remains in isolation. The ripples are many.”
― Sarah Winman, Still Life

“It’s what we’ve always done. Left a mark on a cave, or on a page. Showing who we are, sharing our view of the world, the life we’re made to bear. Our turmoil is revealed in those painted faces – sometimes tenderly, sometimes grotesquely, but art becomes a mirror. All the symbolism and the paradox, ours to interpret. That’s how it becomes part of us.”
― Sarah Winman, Still Life