Jeanette

“Some people, surely, die on the way to something.

Then we call them the late so-and-so.”
― Maira Kalman, Hurry Up and Wait

“Isn't that the only way to curate a life? To live among things that make you gasp with delight?”
― Maira Kalman, My Favorite Things

“One way to think of this dignity is to equate when you are on the path with unraveling a ball of yarn. You have wound your sense of self so tightly that it's hard to be anything other than you, a big ball of yarn. That's just who you are, not string, or threads, but a ball of yarn.”
― Lodro Rinzler, The Buddha Walks into a Bar . . .: A Guide to Life for a New Generation

“And I wasn't old enough to be wise, so I loved her more, not less, because I knew she would be taken from me soon.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted