May

“There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty - unless she is wed to something more meaningful - is always superficial.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“All freedom is relative—you know too well—and sometimes it’s no freedom at all, but simply the cage widening far away from you, the bars abstracted with distance but still there, as when they “free” wild animals into nature preserves only to contain them yet again by larger borders. But I took it anyway, that widening. Because sometimes not seeing the bars is enough”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I know I'm a photographer, but if someone else says I'm that, it changes things because what they think about me isn't what I think about me.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
― Louisa May Alcott