Vi Avellaneda Ramirez

“I wish I could appear everywhere in my life the way I felt called to appear those two times,” she said. “Present, open, able to be surprised.”
― Amanda Ripley, High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out

“In his head, he’d ask himself three questions: Does it need to be said? If the answer was yes, then he’d ask himself: Does it need to be said by me? And if still yes: Does it need to be said by me right now? It was surprising how often the answer was No.”
― Amanda Ripley, High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out

“What do we call visible light? We call it color. But the electromagnetic spectrum runs to zero in one direction and infinity in the other, so really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Listening doesn’t mean agreeing. It doesn’t mean legitimizing or amplifying what other people say.”
― Amanda Ripley, High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out