Reader

“Just as you can pick out the voice of a loved one in the tumult of a noisy room, or spot your child's smile in a sea of faces, intimate connection allows recognition in an all-too-often anonymous world. This sense of connection arises from a special kind of discrimination, a search image that comes from a long time spent looking and listening. Intimacy gives us a different way of seeing, when visual acuity is not enough.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
― Walt Whitman

“We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison