Keiley Tappon

“But as he reconstructs Zeno’s translation, he realizes that the truth is infinitely more complicated, that we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“I’ve lived a charmed life. Maybe I never understood that until now.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“The miracle of life is not that we have it, it’s that most of us wake up every day and agree to fight for it, to hold it in our arms even when it squirms to get away.”
― Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

“No one is the first person to whom bad things have happened. Functionality is not the problem. The problem is that our capacity to handle something shocking in the short term can make things indistinguishable in the long term.”
― Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People