Emily Mowry

“The brain is locked in total darkness, of course, children, says the voice. It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull, never in the light. And yet the world it constructs in the mind is full of light. It brims with color and movement. So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“And is it so hard to believe that souls might also travel those paths? That her father and Etienne and Madame Manec and the German boy named Werner Pfennig might harry the sky in flocks, like egrets, like terns, like starlings? That great shuttles of souls might fly about, faded but audible if you listen closely enough?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“MORPHEUS: I did not intend to hurt you,

THESSALY: And what if you did not? Intent and outcome are so rarely coincident.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“We are all improved by the glow of memory.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones