Caitlin McCay

“Then everybody wept,
Or sat, too exhausted to weep,
Or lay, too hurt to weep.”
― Ted Hughes

“Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or decline from it. Optimism is similarly confident about what will happen. Both are grounds for not acting. Hope can be the knowledge that reality doesn't necessarily match our plans.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

“...for, in [William] Morris's words, 'a work of utility might also be a work of art, if we cared to make it so.”
― Ewan Clayton, The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing

“Saying that everything is fine or that it will never get any better are ways of going nowhere or of making it impossible to go anywhere. Either approach implies that there is no road out or that, if there is, you don't need to or can't go down it.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me