Victoria Starbuck

“Joy doesn’t betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated, and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

“To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

“It was to him a very strange and perplexing place, where people wore fine clothes and had hard hearts.”
― Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

“Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca