Colleen

“It is pleasant to be free," wrote Aldous Huxley, who, like Eberhart, for years owned little more than an automobile and a few books. "Bus occasionally, I must confession, I regret the chains with which I have not loaded myself. In these moods I desire a house full of stuff, a plot of land with things growing on it; I feel that I should like to know one small place and its people intimately, that I should like to have known then for years, all my life. But one cannot be two incompatible things at the same time. If one desires freedom, one must sacrifice the advantages of being bound.”
― Robert Moor, On Trails: An Exploration

“Public scarcity in times of unprecedented private wealth is a manufactured crisis, designed to extinguish our dreams before they have a chance to be born.”
― Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

“If you live in a house that needs shingles, you will attend a school that needs books, and while sitting in that school's desk you'll struggle to focus because your tooth needs a dentist or your stomach needs food.”
― Sarah Smarsh, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

“Unfortunately, when hope diminishes, the hate is often turned most bitterly toward those who originally built up the hope.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?