Amelia

“It is not in the power of journalism by itself to change the civilization of the spectacle that it has helped to create. This reality is deeply rooted in our time. It is the birth certificate of the new generations, a way of being and living and perhaps of dying in this world of ours; we who are the fortunate citizens of countries in which the democracy, liberty, ideas, values, books, art and literature of the West have afforded us both the privilege of turning fleeting entertainment into the supreme aspiration of human existence as well as the right to view with cynicism and disdain everything that is boring or worrying, and remind us that life is not just entertainment but also drama, pain, mystery and frustration.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Notes on the Death of Culture

“Why do I feel as though I'm writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?”
― Édouard Louis, Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme

“Doing something when it is hard, because it is the right thing to do, matters more than doing it when it's easy. The world needs light now more than ever.”
― T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

“We can't be perfectly balanced as we navigate the pendulum swing of our days--we can only wobble toward what we need.”
― Madeleine Dore, I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt