Ekaterina

“Memory is too unreliable to be ‘truthful’.”
― John Rechy, After the Blue Hour

“Life is such a gentle, treasured thing. I learn about it every minute. I think about it so deeply.”
― Bessie Head, A Question of Power

“When I die I will live again.
By nature I am a conserver.
I have found Nature
to be a conserver, too.
Nothing is wasted
or permanently lost
in Nature. Things
change their form,
but they do not cease
to exist. After
I leave this world
I do not believe I am through.
God would be a bigger fool
than even man
if He did not conserve
the human soul,
which seems to be
the most important thing
He has yet done in the universe.
When you get your grip
on the last rung of the ladder
and look over the wall
as I am now doing,
you don’t need their proofs:
You see.
You know
you will not die.”
― Marilyn Nelson, Carver: A Life in Poems

“Who were these people with money, and what had they done that they should enjoy so much luxury, where others as good seemingly as themselves had nothing? And wherein did these latter differ so greatly from the successful?”
― Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy