Jilleen

“Look for the clutter in your writing and prune it ruthlessly. Be grateful for everything you can throw away. Reexamine each sentence you put on paper. Is every word doing new work? Can any thought be expressed with more economy?”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“Why was it, she asked herself, that 'animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few months, while humans, despite centuries of refinement, can quickly grow more savage than any beast.”
― Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper's Wife

“Mass imprisonment generates profits as it devours social wealth, and thus it tends to reproduce the very conditions that lead people to prison. There are thus real and often quite complicated connections between the deindustrialization of the economy—a process that reached its peak during the 1980s—and the rise of mass imprisonment, which also began to spiral during the Reagan-Bush era.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?

“Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart