Elizabeth

“The soul has a story that has a shape that almost no one
sees. No, no one ever does.”
― Marie Howe, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems

“Doubt kindles our suspicious intelligence and at the same time extinguishes our capacity for love.”
― Simon Critchley, Mysticism

“Writers tend to come out of families in which it is understood that language is powerful”
― George Saunders

“To forget oneself, even for an instant, in order to identify with a stranger and fully recognize him, defies necessity. And this moment of defiance, however small and discreet...liberates a power that cannot be measured at any scale in the natural world. This defiance is not a means, and it has no end.”
― John Berger