Maitha

“But how you feel love and understand love are two different things.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

“Even if we didn't know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they'd tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“This is because my mind is always turning over this question of how I’m going to feel later, based on what I’m doing now. Later in the day. Later in the week. Later in a life starting to look like a series of activities designed to make me feel good later, but not now. Knowing I’ll feel good later makes me feel good enough now.”
― Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry

“it was one of those cases I found so common later in government, where the risk of acting was far less than the risk of doing nothing”
― Michael Barber