Dovile

“The thought makes my teeth gnash and my lip snarl and my jaw fill with a scream. A scream that always has the same chorus. What they took away, seemingly so easily, was a person. "This was a person!"

A person who could watch a sunset and feel the wind against their cheek. Smell fresh-cut grass or listen to a Bowie song. A person who could scrape up enough money to buy themselves a hot-fudge sundae.

A person who could still close their eyes and dream.

That's what the media refuses to understand. No matter how down and out someone may seem, no matter how many drugs they took or arrests they had or rock bottoms they hit-they could have still done all those things. Those things that make us human.

And one day, someone came along and took all those things away. Every single one of them. And left them with darkness.”
― Billy Jensen, Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

“Even the smallest light shines bright in the darkness”
― Donna Raye

“children who spent time in green spaces between the ages of seven and twelve tend to think of nature as magical. As adults they are the people most likely to be indignant about lack of nature protection, while those who have had no such experience tend to regard nature as hostile or irrelevant and are indifferent to its loss. By expurgating nature from children's lives we are depriving the environment of its champions for the future.”
― Isabella Tree, Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm

“Office politics isn’t a distraction; it’s a central work function in any job where performance is subjective.”
― Paul Podolsky, The Uncomfortable Truth About Money: A lifetime of financial lessons for everyday investors