May

“You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“It is not down on any map; true places never are.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Instar implies something both celestial and ingrown, something heavenly and disastrous, and perhaps change is commonly like that, a buried star, oscillating between near and far.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discovery is still taking place in our time.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost