Natalie

“So much of surviving was sacrifice, cutting things short, suppressing life to do what’s needed to make it to tomorrow”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir

“Let’s go back to Mr. Hernandez’s film literature class, back to Jaws. Mr. Hernandez pointed out that we never actually saw the shark until about eighty minutes into the film. Instead we heard horror stories, glimpsed its sinister fin; primed to be scared, so that when the shark made its grand debut, we saw everything we’d been taught to see, the merciless, blood-seeking Jaws. Before the cop pulled Philando over, he’d reported the man resembled a robbery suspect, commenting on his wide-set nose. By the time the cop stepped up to the window, he didn’t see Philando, he saw everything he thought he knew about wide noses, blackness, guns, added it all up to threat in his head. The problem is not who we are, the problem is what you think we are.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir

“No matter how formidable or self-assured I might become, I will always be a tadpole.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir

“What little information we have comes from studies done in altitude chambers on unfortunate humans and even more unfortunate animals.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies