Kate

“Harmony, balance, and rhythm. They’re the three things that stay with you your whole life. Without them civilization is out of whack. And that’s why an oarsman, when he goes out in life, he can fight it, he can handle life. That’s what he gets from rowing.”
― Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

“I sat enchanted, far from my gods, adrift in the boat of spices, in the sigh of the South, in the net of the wheeling stars, in the country of dolphins.”
― Sofia Samatar, A Stranger in Olondria

“You have to let go before you can reach.”
― Kate Messner, All the Answers

“I was surrounded by words and stories and dust-speckled light. That's a pretty perfect way to be.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic