Nick Savastio

“When I first started here, there was a detailed manual that taught me how to be a store worker, and I still don’t have a clue how to be a normal person outside that manual.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“Isn't this the purpose of education, to learn the nature of your own gifts and how to use them for good in the world?”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“Sometimes we falter not because the ground beneath our feet is unstable but because it's exhausting to keep moving, to keep trying, to keep performing the same actions again and again.”
― Kyo Maclear, Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation

“My present self is formed almost completely of the people around me.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman