Anna

“Not everything that happens in a life can be digested. Some events stay forever whole. Some images never leave the mind.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“I think reading a good book makes one modest. When you see the marvellous insight into human nature which a truly great book shows, it is bound to make you feel small-- like looking at the Dipper on a clear night, or seeing the winter sunrise when you go out to collect the morning eggs. And anything that makes you feel small is mighty good for you.”
― Christopher Morley, Parnassus on Wheels

“All things are meltable, and replaceable. Not at this moment, but soon enough, we are lambs and we are leaves, and we are stars, and the shining, mysterious pond water itself.”
― Mary Oliver, Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems

“My home was a provisional space in which the present was always wasted in dreaded anticipation of the future.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning