Hannah Jane

“I knew that tune, but I couldn't remember it. It hovered on the edge of my mind. I tried to grab it, but you can't just grab your memories. You have to pretend not to pay attention to them, which makes them mad. You have to trick them into sneaking up on you from behind.”
― Franny Billingsley, The Robber Girl

“As any good therapist will tell you, you cannot heal what you do not acknowledge, and what you do not consciously acknowledge will remain in control of you from within, festering and destroying you and those around you.”
― Richard Rohr, Breathing Underwater

“It is winter. Ravens are standing on a pile of bones -- black typeface on white paper picking an idea clean. It’s what I do each time I sit down to write. What else are we to do with our obsessions? Do they feed us? Or are we simply scavenging our memories for one gleaming image to tell the truth of what is hunting us?

'To write,' Marguerite Duras remarked, 'is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

“The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you,”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation