Barty (Bartholomew) Wu

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Coming into our own humanity often takes enormous effort, commitment and bravery. I believe we should be taught that at an early age. I believe part of the violence of our culture stirs from the myth is kindness is natural. I think kindness would only be natural in a world where no one is hurt, and everyone is hurt. So kindness is work. Kindness is knees in the garden weeding our bites, our apathies, our cold shoulders, our silences, our cruelties, whatever taught us the world 'ugly'.”
― Andrea Gibson, Take Me With You

“It is a gift in this life that we do not know what awaits us.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Lucy by the Sea