Kiana Minkle

“After so many years of foolishness, you have once again had an idea, have done something, have heard the bird in your chest singing and have followed it.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

“Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

“My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams-like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.”
― Herman Hesse

“The stories don't fit back together, and it's the end of stories, those devices we carry like shells and shields and blinkers and occasionally maps and compasses. The people close to you become mirrors and journals in which you record your history, the instruments that help you know yourself and remember yourself, and you do the same for them. When they vanish so does the use, the appreciation, the understanding of those small anecdotes, catchphrases, jokes: they become a book slammed shut or burnt... The stories shatter. Or you wear them out or leave them behind. Over time the memory loses power. Over time you become someone else.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost