Hope

“Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve, and grieving necessitates learning to live in the world with the absence of someone you love deeply, who is ingrained in your understanding of the world. This means that for the brain, your loved one is simultaneously gone and also everlasting, and you are walking through two worlds at the same time. You are navigating your life despite the fact that they have been stolen from you, a premise that makes no sense, and that is both confusing and upsetting.”
― Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

“The world is full of mysteries, and we should be grateful, as a world completely understood is a world with little enchantment left to offer.”
― Seanan McGuire

“Everyone can afford to be nice to each other, when no one is trying to exterminate anybody.”
― Sam J. Miller, Blackfish City

“Sometimes strands spend a long time seeking each other, fumbling without light, and interweave without knowing that it is exactly what the web wants.”
― Emmi Itäranta, Kudottujen kujien kaupunki