Emma M.

“I can tell something is going wrong for me when I withdraw—I stop caring as much about the things I usually care about, be it keeping up the house or maintaining social connections or even watching the shows I like. But the more insidious thing that happens is that I lose track of my story. I lose track of where I’m going. I stop wanting to go anywhere. I stop thinking about getting to my desired ending, because everything feels like an ending already.”
― R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, The Best Is Over!: Essays

“Even in okay times, there is a subterranean river of melancholy in me, and sometimes a productive afternoon is comprised of using YouTube videos of varying qualities like divining rods.”
― R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, The Best Is Over!: Essays

“And now I was looking for ways to keep the rest of the day simple, absent of striving and shoulds. This new mindset allowed me to make decisions based not on what was best, but what was good enough.”
― Julie Chavez, Everyone But Myself: A Memoir

“Teachers deserve a safe working environment in which violence is not tolerated from students, parents, or staff, and educators can report it and other transgressions without fear of retaliation.”
― Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession