Ashley

“It can sometimes feel like loving the beauty that surrounds us is somehow disrespectful to the many horrors that surround us. But mostly, I think I'm just scared that if I show the world my belly, it will devour me. And so I wear the armor of cynicism, and hide behind the great walls of irony, and only glimpse beauty with my back turned to it, through the Claude glass.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See