Paris Chanel

“I have fallen so in love with the leaves, who do the duty of making their death beautiful, bursting from otherwise unremarkable branches before the cold browns them and grinds them to dust.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

“Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons.”
― Denzel Washington

“There are many beautiful trees in Beartown. We sometimes say that's because a new one grows every time we bury someone. That's why the births are listed alongside the deaths in the local paper, so we never run out of either trees or people. It doesn't matter. We don't want a new tree. Another person. We just want this one back.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“If you are bewildered and clinging tenaciously to some course you love, be patient. Work hard. Hold your dream tightly to you, and do everything you can to realize it within reason. Take a step that will lead you toward the realization of your dream, and then take another, and another, and another. Hold fast to your oars, hoist the sails to the wind, read the pictures in the stars, look beyond the horizon to that which you can't see but dimly sense in your future: the curving inlet, the sandy beach.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Navigate Your Stars