Beth James

“Up in her bedroom she lays her tarot cards out on the bed. A draught creeps across her shoulder blades and, for a moment, she gets a strange feeling of a hand, reaching out of the darkness. She shakes her head and shoulders and shuffles the dog-eared cards. She flicks three across her bed, face down, then puts her hand over the first card and asks it to tell her what is going on. The next one she asks what is getting in the way. The third she asks what will fix the problem.”
― Francine Toon, Pine

“There is a kind of sadness in not wanting the things that give so many other people their life’s meaning.”
― Sheila Heti, Motherhood

“We're so often told that art can't really change anything. But I think it can. It shapes our ethical landscapes; it opens us to the interior lives of others. It is a training ground for possibility. It makes plain inequalities, and it offers other ways of living.”
― Olivia Laing , Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

“Morning is the time for deep breaths, and discovering, ourselves anew in our bodies”
― Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar