Kim Roen

“Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“All this doesn’t invade you somehow? Disrupt everything? Hollow you?” Lars puts down the coffee”
― Derek B. Miller, Norwegian by Night

“Lemon Head, the chemistry teacher, found this recurrent animate response vexingly ludicrous and not a little unsettling. It was idiotic, and, worse than that, it was inscrutable.”
― Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

“That we were frightened by your death—no . . . it is that your harsh death darkly interrupted us, divided what-had-been from what-would-be: that was our concern; coming to terms with it will accompany everything we do: Today; tomorrow. Again and again. You have gone on. . . . But you were frightened”
― Jason Mott, Hell of a Book