catherine

“I remember the words of a physicist: Anything that can happen will happen. What we resist the most is eventually what must befall us. What we fight eventually becomes our future.”
― Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

“How does anyone bear themselves? How can anyone stare into the darkest corners of humanity and return to the office, enter the meeting room, and deliver the presentation? How do we all just keep working?”
― Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

“You can witness the unthinkable, you can have the unthinkable done to you, and at some indeterminate point in the future you can still be happy, even if just for a fixed moment, a little ball of satisfaction in the chest—isn’t that incredible? Even blood washes out, or you can fill your mouth with things that hide the taste of it.”
― Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

“It's my belief that we are just an ever-changing collection of memories that, when added up, create the illusion of self.”
― Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy