Belle Clark

“That’s what humans do: we make and remake our stories, abandoning the ones that no longer fit and trying on new ones for size.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“I take a drink of my coffee and close my eyes and cry because life can be so fucking cruel and hard, and I’ve wanted to quit living it so many times, but then moments like these remind me that happiness isn’t some permanent thing we’re all trying to achieve in life, it’s merely a thing that shows up every now and then, sometimes in tiny doses that are just substantial enough to keep us going.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“As we’ve left the comforts of running water and air conditioning and clean clothes, people’s perceptions of us have changed. They look at us more warily. They’re less friendly. We’ve been experiencing, to an infinitesimal degree, the social and psychological toll that actual poor or unhoused people face every day.”
― Angela Yarber, Queering the American Dream

“We tend to imagine that our lives are linear, but they are in fact cyclical.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times