Keli Wright

“There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my next-door neighbor’s name.”
― Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things

“He imagines what would happen if the whole street called his name, joining with the mother's small voice, the whole street lifting the words and the words spreading through this city, taking flight like a flock of birds at dusk, clouding the sky,... the name, pouring down from the sky... across all our misconnected world, a chorus of name-saying, a brief redemptive span of attention.”
― Jon McGregor

“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

“You must always look with both of your eyes and listen with both of your ears. He says this is a very big world and there are many many things you could miss if you are not careful. There are remarkable things all the time, right in front of us, but our eyes have like the clouds over the sun and our lives are paler and poorer if we do not see them for what they are. If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?”
― Jon McGregor, If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things