Britt Dvorak

“Because every day when I wake up, the clouds gather, a little darker each day, and I feel less and less equipped to do anything about them. To go anywhere. To make a change. To speak more than the occasional sentence. So I go to the bookstores. I do not want to speak and I do not want to be spoken to. I find it hurts my ears. My head. My skin. And people are quiet in bookstores. I like the anonymous, mute companionship of my fellow browsers.”
― Juliann Garey, Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See

“So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves

“we can proceed in our lives just as easily from love to love as from loss to loss. A good thing to remember in the middle of the night when you’re not sure how you will get through the next three breaths.”
― Peter Heller, The Painter

“To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.”
― Peter Heller, The Dog Stars