Courtney

“I was an elder sister before I was a wife, and for longer, and that’s a shape I can’t easily shake.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, The River Has Roots

“You can take the historian out of the storyteller, but you can't take the storyteller out of the historian.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Even surgeries that doctors deem a success for me have come with a series have come with a series of losses and unexpected compromises. There is no road map but I'm hopeful things will get better -- even when I can't conceptualize what better looks like.”
― Maria Sweeney, Brittle Joints

“Of the possible shades of indigo dyeing, a deep navy blue was employed most frequently. As a result, ko-ya, the name of the dyers who used it, became a kind of synonym for the whole hand-dyeing industry. The demand for navy blue kept ko-ya so busy that they hardly had time to dye their own clothing; this gave rise to the phrase “a ko-ya who wears white,” which referred in general to anyone too busy attending to the needs of others to attend to his own.”
― Sadao Hibi, The Colors of Japan: Background, Characteristics and Creation