Kimberly Boyd

“My sadness isn’t a way I feel but a thing trapped inside the walls of my flesh, like a smog. It takes the sheen off everything. It rolls the world in soot. It saps the power from my limbs and presses my back into a stoop.”
― Sara Baume, Spill Simmer Falter Wither

“Selfishness is neither good nor bad—it depends on the way we are selfish as to whether it nourishes or injures.”
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

“I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.”
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself

“What I want are words that reflect my heart, not my cleverness.”
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person