Rose Wh

“The mettle that it takes to look away from the horror of our prison system, from police forces transformed into armies, from the long war against the black body, is not forged overnight. This is the practiced habit of jabbing out one's eyes and forgetting the work of one's hands.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“Cats are really something. They'll just ignore you half the time, but they seem to know when you're really in need of some comforting.”
― Genki Kawamura, 世界から猫が消えたなら [Sekai kara Neko ga Kietanara]

“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“I have never considered compassion a finite resource. I would not want to live in a world where such was the case.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays