Maureen

“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

“No system of thought can contain the fullness of human experience.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“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 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