Hailey Brown

“It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world. It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explore it and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not despise it; not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration, and respect.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

“In the presence of immortality—the endlessly churning sea, the plowed fields of the sky, the loose gypsy wind—the rest of her life feels absurdly, ridiculously mortal and transient. Transient as money, fragile as love. As ethereal and ready to pop as these balloons that are dancing in the wind.”
― Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us

“Circe, he says, it will be all right. It is not the saying of an oracle or a prophet. They are words you might speak to a child. I have heard him say them to our daughters, when he rocked them back to sleep from a nightmare, when he dressed their small cuts, soothed whatever stung. His skin is familiar as my own beneath my fingers. I listen to his breath, warm upon the night air, and somehow I am comforted. He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earths and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Sometimes you have to stand back and let people do what they are good at, even if it seems like madness at the time.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold