Harri

“Life comes in seasons. There are the seasons where you are driving through a snowstorm, just trying to keep your eye on the road ahead to stay alive. Your ego stands in the doorway of every good idea, keeping them from you. We avoid the pain. We put our blinders on and stay focused on what’s right ahead, turning away from the thing we need to see in our periphery, because we know accepting it will force us to question everything we hold so tightly. But then there are those seasons when the snow globe is being shaken all around you, and you’re standing in place, looking up to try to see where the scattered world is all going to fall. When it finally settles, that’s when you find yourself in the house of hidden meanings. You study the patterns that keep coming up. You allow them to show you something different, even if it’s the thing you’ve been running from your whole life. You run into the fire, run through the pain, trusting that the only way out is through.”
― RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

“Clyde took a drink of his coffee, which, like all the coffee he had ever had at the Short Stack, was a dark, percolated slap to the face, which is why he drank it.”
― John Scalzi, When the Moon Hits Your Eye

“Remember, they are being paid the lowest wage possible to love you.”
― Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

“We are pattern-seeking animals, and we want and expect things to happen for a reason. When no reason is available, we will still provide one.”
― John Scalzi, When the Moon Hits Your Eye