Ryan Dickson

“History isn't a premade tapestry that we've got to suffer, a closed world with no exit. We can form it. Make it. We just have to choose to make it.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Memory sifts. Memory lifts. Memory makes do with what it is given. Memory is not about facts. Memory is an inconsistent measurement of the pain in one's life.”
― Brandon Taylor, Real Life

“No one does. No one ever does. Silence is their way of getting by, because they are silent long enough, then this moment of minor discomfort will pas for them, will fold down into the landscape of the evening as if it never happened.”
― Brandon Taylor, Real Life

“No matter what happens in the world, however brutal or dystopian a thing, not all is lost if there are people out there making themselves to document it.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark