Josie Gutierrez

“But if each is not new, each single life, then why are we born?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“There are a few years when you make almost all of your important memories. And then you spend the next few decades reliving them.”
― Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

“We are a longstanding species with a very short memory. If we don’t keep record, we’ll make the same mistakes over and over again.”
― Becky Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few

“When she saw Yaw, saw his scar, she gasped, and the bowl fell to the ground, shattering, scattering pieces of red clay from the door all the way into the gardens. Tiny pieces of clay that they would never find, that would be absorbed into that earth from which they came.”
― Yaa Gyasi