Emily Erickson

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
― Wole Soyinka

“We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)”
― Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living