Stephanie

“You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.”
― Joan Didion

“Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?” (Thoreau).”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one’s solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.”
― Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers