Lara

“A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.”
― Meghan O'Rourke

“What we miss—what we lose and what we mourn—isn’t it this that makes us who, deep down, we truly are. To say nothing of what we wanted in life but never got to have.”
― Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

“Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.”
― Anonymous

“Here and gone. That’s what it is to be human, I think—to be both someone and no one at once, to hold a particular identity in the world (our names, our place of origins, our family and affectional ties) and to feel that solid set of ties also capable of dissolution, slipping away, as we become moments of attention.”
― Mark Doty, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy