Oana Leva

“we are animated by an intense connection to the landscapes and topographies of our formative years. An emotion known as topophilia, which I experienced while revisiting those mountain trails of my childhood, furnishes this affective-spatial memory that renders childhood as much a time as a place.”
― Maria Popova

“To live in a world without forgiveness, she intimates, is to make of life an instant fossil record”
― Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

“If it is worthy — the book, as the love — and if we are lucky, it reflects us back to ourselves magnified yet transformed”
― Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

“Wintering… is the courage to stare down the worst parts of our experience and to commit to healing them the best we can”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times