Anna

“Sorrow like vapor, sorrow like smoke, sorrow like quicksand, sorrow like an ocean, sorrow louder and fuller than the church songs, sorrow everywhere with nowhere to go.”
― Elizabeth Alexander, The Light of the World

“Wonder is the very engine of life.”
― Erling Kagge, Silence: In the Age of Noise

“Over time, I came to see bias as a kind of soul violence, an attack not just on the material conditions of one’s life—on one’s choices and possibilities—but an assault on one’s sense of self.”
― Jessica Nordell, The End of Bias: What the New Science of Overcoming Bias Teaches Us About Transforming Our Lives, Our Companies, Our World

“Then it came to me, my life. I remembered my life
the way an ax handle, mid-swing, remembers the tree.
& I was free.”
― Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother