Tracey

“While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river water and enter the bodies of swimmers. She was excited, filled with strength. The polished sentences had arrived, it seemed, like so many other things, at just the right time. How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others?”
― James Salter, Light Years

“Deep down in our bones we must know - we must know that nothing we do is done in isolation. Cause and effect: how did it get so noisy in between>”
― Anna Krien, Into the Woods: the Battle for Tasmania's Forests

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings