Ester Alspach

“Always move forward. Don’t dwell on the if-onlys.”
― Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre

“The dead at Nyarubuye were, I'm afraid, beautiful. There was no getting around it. The skeleton is a beautiful thing. The randomness of the fallen forms, the strange tranquility of their rude exposure, the skull here, the arm bent in some uninterpretable gesture there--these things were beautiful, and their beauty only added to the affront of the place. I couldn't settle on any meaningful response: revulsion, alarm, sorrow, grief, shame, incomprehension, sure, but nothing truly meaningful. I just looked, and I took photographs, because I wondered whether I could really see what I was seeing while I saw it, and I wanted also an excuse to look a bit more closely.”
― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

“Incluso con mis amigas no soy realmente yo misma.
En parte soy otra; tratando de encajar, de decir cosas apropiadas, de hacer
las cosas requeridas, de estar en el lugar más indicado, de vestir como
visten todos. A veces pienso que cada uno trata de ser la sombra de otro;
compramos los mismos discos y hacemos como los demás, aunque no nos
guste. Los muchachos son como robots, piezas en línea para el montaje, y
yo no quiero ser un robot.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.”
― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia