Haley

“Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the past, is not like that. It isn’t flat or linear. It has no outline. It is slippery, like liquid; infinite and unknowable, like space. And it is changeable: just when you think you see a pattern, perspective shifts, an alternative version is proffered, a long-forgotten memory resurfaces.”
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

“Nearly every species that has ever lived has gone extinct, Laurette. No reason to think we humans will be any different!” Dr. Geffard pronounces this almost gleefully and pours wine into his glass, and she imagines his head as a cabinet filled with ten thousand little drawers.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.”
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
― Mary Oliver