Tara Ryan-Gallagher

“Some books you don’t read so much as live, and finishing one of those always makes me think of ascending from a scuba dive. Like if I surface too fast I might get the bends.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“In the context of tragedy, all polite behavior is self-denial.”
― June Jordan, Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays

“Literature is analysis after the event.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“For we the people will always be arriving
a ceremony of thunder
waking up the earth
opening our eyes to human
monuments.
And it'll get better
it'll get better
if we the people work, organize, resist,
come together for peace, racial, social
and sexual justice
it'll get better
it'll get better.”
― Sonia Sanchez, Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems