Emily Ray

“For so many of us, sorry has become how we translate the word body.”
― Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

“Predators and abusers, my shrink has said, can sense your pain and weakness. It’s their gift.”
― Lisa Unger, The Doll's House

“The context for hope is radical uncertainty’, writes McKinnon; ‘anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it’, Rebecca Solnit. ‘Hope is not a door, but a sense that there might be a door somewhere.”
― Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

“If the self can only understand that ‘it was already dying, already dead’, then it can crash to the bottom with equanimity; if it can also understand that everything around it is fleeting and insubstantial – a speck of dust in the cosmos, to be blown away in a millisecond – it can quietly let go of the world. It won’t hurt much.”
― Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline