Ikitesu

“Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for?"

"Well […] I guess people wait in order to make sure of what they feel."

"And when you have waited—-has it made you sure?”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, City of Illusions

“{T}here is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity.”
― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose