Tyler Barlass

“If tribal thinking is original sin, then story is prayer. At its best, it reminds us that, beneath our many differences, we remain beasts of one species.”
― Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling

“We came here head to toe
and now we are millions
and now we demand to sit upright”
― Eve L Ewing, 1919 Lib/E

“Buried violence is just a perennial bulb that is fertilized by fear and watered by insecurity.”
― Wright Thompson, The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

“How very ordinary and general and unremarkable a destiny it must be, how predictable a part of the universal portion of mankind it is, to love and to feel oneself beloved; and yet how astonishing it seems when it happens to you, yourself; what a stroke of glorious, undeserved, unprecedented luck it turns out to be, that you should be permitted, in your own person, to share in the general fate.”
― Francis Spufford, Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York