Emily

“I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness.”
― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

“...children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.”
― Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Let us remember...that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the world in which we live them, and that if we more fully inhabit these things, we might be less apt to destroy both.”
― Christian Wiman