Caitlin McCay

“...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

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

“Yes,” he said, “intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn’t matter.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Dawn

“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