Alice

“But it always happens you get what you need, a little at a time. You get through a hour, then a day, then a week. Then you look back and it’s been a year, and then more years, and good things found a way in, too. And in time, you see that them you lost are holding you up and moving you on. Helping you see the good. You ain’t done with good things to come.”
― Kelly Mustian, The Girls in the Stilt House

“History is a thing designed in retrospect.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“I can look back and see that I've spent much of my life in a cloud of things that have tended to push "being kind" to the periphery. Things like: Anxiety. Fear. Insecurity. Ambition. The mistaken belief that enough accomplishment will rid me of all that anxiety, fear, insecurity, and ambition. The belief that if I can only accrue enough -- enough accomplishment, money, fame -- my neuroses will disappear.”
― George Saunders, Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness

“Just because you haven't personally experienced something doesn't make it not true. What a concept.”
― Lindy West