Kelly

“Your body - every body is a marvel. A wonder of creation. [...] The day your first opened your eyes, Anna, God asked just one thing: that you live.”
― Emma Donoghue, The Wonder

“It is an atmosphere peculiar to the place; and, because of it, the sunshine in Horai is whiter than any other sunshine, - a milky light that never dazzles, - astonishingly clear, but very soft. This atmosphere is not of our human period: it is enormously old, - so old that I feel afraid when I try to think how old it is; - and it is not a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen. It is not made of air at all, but of ghost, - the substance of quintillions of quintillions of generations of souls blended into one immense translucency, - souls of people who thought in ways never resembling our ways.”
― Lafcadio Hearn, Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

“The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“Then they fake smile at each other, but I’m starting to understand that smiling is really just another way of baring one’s teeth.”
― A.S. King, Still Life with Tornado