Katrina

“The thing is that there are obviously different ways to think about these kinds of situations.”
― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

“Every dark cloud may well have its silver lining, but I have come to learn that every silver lining has its dark consequences.”
― Tim O'Brien, Tomcat in Love: A Novel

“The extraordinary and unique quality of the disabled body, I argue, can be seen not only as resisting identification but also, and conversely, as providing a symbolic and actual basis on which to structure a system of identification that seeks to fix individual bodily identity.”
― Ellen Samuels, Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race

“But this, too, was a performance.”
― Tim O'Brien, Tomcat in Love: A Novel