Maria

“May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“A circle looks at a square and sees a badly made circle.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Authority

“If it no go so, it go near so. —Jamaican proverb”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

“Maybe you are thin. You hiked that trail and you are fit and beautiful and wanted and I am so proud of you, I am so in awe of your wiry brightness; and I'm miles behind you, my breathing ragged. But you didn't carry this up the mountain, You only carried yourself. How hard would you breathe if you had to carry me? You couldn't. But I can.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman