Izzy

“And we the people are so vulnerable. Our bodies are shot with mortality. Our legs are fear and our arms are time. These chill humors seep through our capillaries, weighting each cell with an icy dab of nonbeing, and that dab grows and swells and sucks the cell dry. That is why physical courage is so important—it fills, as it were, the holes—and why it is so invigorating. The least brave act, chance taken and passage won, makes you feel loud as a child.”
― Annie Dillard

“Twenty-two years old, weak, hot, frightened, not daring to acknowledge the fact that he didn't even know who or what he was... with no past, no language, no tribe, no source, no address book, no comb, no pencil, no clock, no pocket handkerchief, no rug, no bed, no can opener, no faded postcard, no soap, no key, no tobacco pouch, no soiled underwear and nothing nothing nothing to do...”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

“That "all they want, man, is they own misery. Ax em to die for you and they yours for life.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

“I want someone to care enough to say more than just "It's up to you what you do with your life." I don't have any opinions and I don't trust myself.”
― Phoebe Gloeckner