Kiersten Schilinski

“One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.”
― Alain de Botton

“If people are busy living out myths you don’t like, leave them to it.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren

“The world did not have me in mind; it had no mind. It was a coincidental collection of things and people, of items, an I myself was one such item...the things in the world did not necessarily cause my overwhelming feelings; the feelings were inside me, beneath my skin, behind my ribs, withing my skull. They were even, to some extent, under my control.”
― Annie Dillard, An American Childhood

“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane