Renata Bursten

“We, like lace, make up the very fabric of society, the tapestry of togetherness that consists of holes, but also of threads that tie us together until the end of time. The more we embrace our fragility and shared sufferings, the more boundaries we overcome, until the light can’t help but pour on in.”
― Kayla Severson, Nature's 1st Gem Is Green

“Everything is infected with brightness, throbbing with it, and she prays for dark the way a wanderer lost in the desert prays for water. The world is every bit as barren of darkness as a desert is of water. There is no dark in the shuttered room, no dark behind her eyelids. There are only greater and lesser degrees of radiance. When she's crossed over to this realm of relentless brilliance, the voices start.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“Only the Right Brained may forgive,
because the Left Brain can't forget.
Amphibrains could have migraines.
//Just Hypothesizing”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“The only thing that had saved her then was knitting. In prison she had become a compulsive knitter. Knitting allowed her to unite, to connect, to integrate. With every stitch she held on to dear life. Threads hold us together.”
― Laura Esquivel