Phillip

“I didn’t know why so many people had written the Bible, but I liked that it wasn’t just one person. There was beauty and wisdom in it, and I did my best to interpret what it meant everywhere it seemed to mean something to me, the way I would with a dream that stuck with me.”
― Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

“He doesn’t know that it is true of everyone, of memory itself, that it is a centerless map and, for those who risk too much looking back at their lives, a trap.”
― Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

“To imagine one can live in the country of money and preserve one’s soul is like imagining one could preserve one’s life at the bottom of a lake.”
― David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity