Michelle Kubilis

“Our lives here are inexpressibly trivial and momentous at once”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“Because of the fifty-one previous years of his life, he had a number of complexes. He had a Napoleon complex, a southern complex, a baby-of-the-family complex. He had both a superiority complex and an inferiority complex, and, because he was born on Christmas Day, a Christmas baby complex.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

“The way forward would seem obvious”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“One time, a few years back, his door bell rang at two in the morning. He got up to see who or what it was. “What do you want? You know what time it is?” There before him was an addict, probably trying to sell him another trinket out of the trash that he didn’t need. “You know it’s two in the morning?” George asked the addict. “Your lights burning,” the addict said. “The lights on your car, Mr. G. I’m sorry, Mr. G., but your lights’re on in your car.” George thanked him. He rushed out to turn off the lights and promised himself he wouldn’t prejudge these people anymore. “I just thank the Lord,” he says, “that, by his grace, it’s not me.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration