Ben Kohns

“This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.”
― Anita Barrows, A Year with Rilke

“The opposite of ‘mean’ is ‘doormat,”
― Margaret Atwood, My Evil Mother

“She said that wanting to be liked was a weakness of character.”
― Margaret Atwood, My Evil Mother

“She told me not long ago, “I’m not suicidal, but sometimes I wish I was dead.” This is the point beyond exhaustion, when you can’t see how you’ll ever fill up again. And then she does, through what she calls lunch-money faith: nothing dramatic, and just enough.”
― Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage