Honor

“But here is the truth of nostalgia: We don’t feel it for who we were, but who we weren’t. We feel it for all the possibilities that were open to us but that we didn’t take.”
― Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars

“He never forgot. He just put the memories away, like old silverware that you didn’t want to tarnish. And every year they came back, sharp and sparkling, and stabbed him in the heart.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

“Be proud of your place in the cosmos. It is so small. And yet it is.”
― Joseph Fink, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe

“History, both the arm holding down the drowning body and the voice claiming the water is holy.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance