Becky Rice

“I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“Maybe you survive cancer, maybe you survive the Holocaust, but life’ll get you every time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Young Jane Young

“There must be satisfaction gained in accurately naming the thing that torments you.”
― Miriam Toews, Women Talking

“The limitless wrath of Achilles can end only once he recognizes that no absolute, permanent victory is ever possible. Everyone must bear unbearable losses, for which no compensation could ever be enough. In the end, we all lose. Our best hope is to accept partial, temporary limits on conflict, accepting human companionship and community as our only, always inadequate compensation, for the pervasive experience of loss.”
― Homer, The Iliad