Sarah

“I missed her so much that I wanted to build a hundred-foot memorial to her with my bare hands. I wanted to see her sitting in a vast stone chair in Hyde Park, enjoying her view. Everybody passing could comprehend how much I miss her. How physical my missing is. I miss her so much it is a vast golden prince, a concert hall, a thousand trees, a lake, nine thousand buses, a million cars, twenty million birds and more. The whole city is my missing her. Eugh,”
― Max Porter, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

“...he yelled all the time and I did not like being yelled at. But fighting him felt like practice for whatever hero's journey God had set aside for me in the future so I did it anyway.”
― Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Catalina

“I was wishing I had a story like that one to live inside me with so much loudness you could pick it up on a stethoscope.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“What is missing from this liberal approach is any critical assessment of what problems the state is asking the police to solve and whether the police are really the best suited to solve them.”
― Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing