Kate

“Surprising things (edited)
The imagination
The dinosaurs
A blue pen with a red lid
Green clouds
Children in bow ties”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“Hour of the day when different lives overlap unlikely stories interact early risers and late nightclubbers people with little in common cross paths”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

“It is no accident, Ma, that the comma resembles a fetus— that curve of continuation. We were all once inside our mothers, saying with our entire curved and silenced selves, more, more, more. I want to insist that are being alive is beautiful enough to be worthy of replication. And so what? So what if all I ever made of my life was more of it?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Our lives here are inexpressibly trivial and momentous at once, it seems he’s about to wake up and say. Both repetitive and unprecedented. We matter greatly and not at all. To reach some pinnacle of human achievement only to discover that your achievements are next to nothing and that to understand this is the greatest achievement of any life, which itself is nothing, and also much more than everything. Some metal separates us from the void; death is so close. Life is everywhere, everywhere.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital