Stephanie

“The American Dream, as we know it, is abundance. It's a dream to amass houses, children, cars. It's a dream to collect things of value. But it is an equally American dream to be able to abandon, drop everything, to jettison, without guilt, anything that weighs you down.”
― Emily Mester, American Bulk: Essays on Excess

“It is only me who wants the death of our brother to have caused a crater in our parents’ lives. Not that they should suffer, but that we might know that we have mattered.”
― Gabrielle Hamilton, Next of Kin: A Memoir

“Keda felt her heart was breaking with a love so universal that it drew into its fiery atmosphere all things because they were; the evil, the good, the rich, the poor, the ugly, the beautiful, and the scratching of this little yellowish hound.”
― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

“Some books you want to devour or read quickly, turning each page as though you are in a race. Like drinking tequila to get high. Some books are sippers, like cognac. You want to hold the liquid on your tongue and roll it over your taste buds, reluctant to have it slide down your throat, lost to your senses. Reading is one of life's magnificent pleasures.”
― Mary St Onge, The Forever Days: A Memoir of Soul Healing and a Lifetime of Summers at the Lake