Katie Gibson

“It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“OCD is not a disease that bothers; it is a disease that tortures.”
― J.J. Keeler, I Hardly Ever Wash My Hands: The Other Side of OCD

“So successfully have we disguised from ourselves the intensity of our own feelings, the sensibility of our own hearts, that plays in the tragic tradition have begun to seem untrue. For a couple of hours we may surrender ourselves to a world of fiercely illuminated values in conflict, but when the stage is covered and the auditorium lighted, almost immediately there is a recoil of disbelief. "Well, well!" we say as we shuffle back up the aisle, while the play dwindles behind us with the sudden perspective of an early Chirico painting. By the time we have arrived at Sardi's, if not as soon as we pass beneath the marquee, we have convinced ourselves once more that life has as little resemblance to the curiously stirring and meaningful occurrences on the stage as a jingle has to an elegy of Rilke.”
― Tennessee Williams, Where I Live: Selected Essays

“Crows don’t take from you,” Dean said. “They give your soul wings.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, The Iron Thorn