Hannah

“If you’re lucky, people will love you in the way they know how. And if you’re really lucky, the love they can give will be the love you need.”
― Tommy Butler, Before You Go

“Life is in the living," say the brass. "There is no way to fail.”
― Tommy Butler, Before You Go

“I was looking for God,” I said. “I wasn’t looking for mythology or mysticism or magic. I didn’t know whether there was a god to find, but I wanted to know. God would have to be a power that could not be defied by anyone or anything.” “Change.” “Change, yes,” “But it’s not a god. It’s not a person or an intelligence or even a thing. It’s just … I don’t know. An idea.” I smiled. Was that such a terrible criticism? “It’s a truth,” I said. “Change is ongoing. Everything changes in some way—size, position, composition, frequency, velocity, thinking, whatever. Every living thing, every bit of matter, all the energy in the universe changes in some way. I don’t claim that everything changes in every way, but everything changes in some way.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence - but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous