Hope Carlson

“Moralizing displaces compassion, and prejudice substitutes for inquiry”
― Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

“to live for others despite still not knowing how to live for herself.”
― Mark Manson, Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

“Deegan elaborated that the goal of such recovery “is not to become normal” or to “get mainstreamed,” but to “embrace our human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human.”
― Mab Segrest, Administrations of Lunacy: A Story of Racism and Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum

“The sun had already set. The Greater Khingan Mountains were gray and indistinct, just like Ye’s life. In this gray life, a dream appeared especially colorful and bright. But one always awoke from a dream, just like the sun—which, though it would rise again, brought no fresh hope. In that moment Ye saw the rest of her life suffused with an endless grayness.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem