Deborah Carr

“...I had nothing to do but survive the feeling that some pain is for no reason at all. It became clearer than ever that life is not a series of choices. So often the experiences that define us are the ones that we didn't pick. Cancer. Betrayal. Miscarriage. Job loss. Mental illness. A novel coronavirus.”
― Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

“It never occurred to me that every life must be constantly reinvented by adventures and private jokes, and that it might, suddenly, end.”
― Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

“This is how we all come to the world, James. Weak and needy, desperate to learn how to be a person.” She smiled at him. “But if we do not like the person we have learned to be, should we just sit in front of our fufu, doing nothing? I think, James, that maybe it is possible to make a new way.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“The impossible, I suppose, happens via living.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library