Kat Becker

“There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours.”
― Edward Morgan Forster, A Passage to India

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.”
― Martha Nussbaum

“that the only thing on earth worthy of fear is a situation that is petrified, congealed, or dying, and the only thing worthy of joy is a situation where not only the individual but also society as a whole wages a constant battle for self-justification.”
― Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude