Kaila

“We don't do all our growing up between birth and adolescence or even our twenties. If we're fortunate, we never stop.”
― Diane Guerrero, In the Country We Love: My Family Divided

“Basically we all need to be anarchists already, there I said it.”
― Ben Passmore, Your Black Friend and Other Strangers

“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others.”
― Pema Chödrön, Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion

“Well, you know, I've been in so many writing workshops, writing classes, and to the right of me and to the left of me, there's always somebody much more talented than I am. And what I figured out is they're not willing to go through the rejection, which is enormous, and then the compromise that comes with, you know, editing your work. And so I decided a long time ago that I didn't have to be 'talented'; I just had to be persistent, and that that was something I could control. The persistence.”
― Kate DiCamillo