Tony

“Time: the most violent war engine of all.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“A profound thanks to my partner in all things, Brandon Colvin. He is my favorite person, and the person I admire most. His faith in me is a beacon. If I need help, he is there, helping me untangle problems and express myself more clearly. If I need motivation, he is there, reminding me of my passion for research and filmmaking. If I need comfort, he is there, delighting and embracing me every single day. This book, and my life, would be much poorer without him by my side.”
― Nora Stone, How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022

“Fight it, then. Propose something to meet the nature of the moment. It can’t be the case both that the Supreme Court is an unaccountable neoconservative body intent on rendering the whole country unrecognizable and that there’s simply no way to do anything significant about it. It can’t be that climate change is the single most important issue facing the world, with our entire species at risk, and drilling licenses need to continue. It can’t be that innocent Palestinians have faced unbearable suffering and we care very deeply about their plight, and absolutely nothing will stop the arming of the nation responsible. It can’t be both rhetorical urgency and policymaking impotence.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“They thought death was worth it, but I Have a self to recover, a queen. Is she dead, is she sleeping ? Where has she been, With her lion-red body, her wings of glass ? Now she is flying More terrible than she ever was, red Scar in the sky, red comet Over the engine that killed her——— The mausoleum, the wax house. 6”
― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems