Sarah

“Common Sense" without growth, curiosity, or perspective eventually becomes conservatism and bitterness.”
― Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

“Maybe it’s helpful to linger there for a minute, in the terrible and the necessary. To start to see them as the same. Maybe in this way, pain is not such a problem”
― Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

“racism is a structure, not an event.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“It's good to be sorry - but don't make a fetish of it. The one good thing about being Protestant is that we are not expected to cringe forever in contrition. Yours was a venial sin, Vivian, but not a mortal one.' 'I don't know what that means.' 'I'm not sure I do, either. It's just something I once read. Here is what I do know, however: sins of the flesh will not get you punished in the afterlife. They will only get you punished in this life. As you've now learned.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls