Maureen

“The poets tell us it was gold and silver, but, for the philosophers, it was iron and corn, which first civilised men, and ruined humanity.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

“With writing, you could always add more. More, more, more until you got to the heart of a thing, and after that, you could chip away the excess.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“It's not dissimilar to why I started writing, or why I still do it. Not just the pursuit of some clinical truth, but the need to understand a person, make sense of what's at their very core, closest to their heart.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“The whole point of us meeting was to say goodbye, or rather, just to be side by side, a farewell of presence, of proximity, the way men are supposed to do.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous