Stacey Kay

“Sometimes things happen and I don’t know what to do with my face.”
― David Sedaris, A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020

“But I also realized that around the world, in places like Yemen and Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, the lives of millions of young men like those three dead Somalis (some of them boys, really, since the oldest pirate was believed to be nineteen) had been warped and stunted by desperation, ignorance, dreams of religious glory, the violence of their surroundings, or the schemes of older men. They were dangerous, these young men, often deliberately and casually cruel. Still, in the aggregate, at least, I wanted somehow to save them—send them to school, give them a trade, drain them of the hate that had been filling their heads. And yet the world they were a part of, and the machinery I commanded, more often had me killing them instead.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“This is one of the most beautiful parts of being a human—the drive to connect and understand, heal and blossom. This is the kernel that takes my breath away. The piece I want to hold on to.”
― Rebekah Taussig, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

“Ours is the only club I’d ever wanted to be a member of, so I couldn’t imagine quitting.”
― David Sedaris, Calypso