Aleksandra

“Bears are often vicious animals. I’m not too worried, however, since pretending to be dead is your best defense against them. It’s how I’ve gone my whole life without a single bear attack.”
― Logan Ryan Smith, My Eyes Are Black Holes

“People will do almost anything to not feel pain, including causing pain and abusing power;”
― Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

“Nostramo. A lawless and sunless place. It burned not because it was guilty but because we failed to keep it innocent. Our laws failed the moment we sailed away to the stars and in desperate embarrassment our father incinerated the evidence of his failure.”
― Aaron Dembski-Bowden, The Long Night

“My mother commissioned it, knowing it would flatter him but really hoping an artist would capture the essence of a man about to slowly wither and die from an inability to love outside himself, despite things such as the birth of a son and the unconditional love of a wife.”
― Logan Ryan Smith, My Eyes Are Black Holes