Melissa

“I have never understood the Norman fascination with paper,’ she says, ‘as though it does not tell as many lies as tongues.”
― Oisín Fagan, Nobber

“I know
you don’t always understand,
but let me point to the first
wet drops landing on the stones,
the noise like fingers drumming
the skin. I can’t help it. I will
never get over making everything
such a big deal.”
― Ada Limon, The Carrying

“I have come Here to have the protection of your laughter.”
― Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning

“Read it again, read it more slowly, that was the whole of my pedagogy when I taught my students, who were pressured everywhere else to be more efficient, to take in information more quickly, to make each moment count, to instrumentalize time, which is a terrible way to live, dehumanizing, it disfigures existence.”
― Garth Greenwell, Small Rain