Jen Klamm

“It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer we approach them, the more remote they seem: the more we study them, the more we have yet to learn. Time augments rather than diminishes their everlasting novelty; and to our descendants of a thousand years hence it may safely be predicted that they will be even more fascinating than to ourselves. This is true of many ancient lands, but of no place is it so true as of Egypt.”
― Kathleen Sheppard, Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age

“Sometimes the eye of the hurricane is the safest place to be”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“I wondered if you see things differently in childhood. If innocence can make anything beautiful.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“It's nice to be seen in this moment. Nice not to fear the sight of other people. She is the only person she is afraid of now—she is the only one here who just tried to kill her.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People