Erin Wyman

“Perhaps memory is not merely the preservation of a moment in the mind, but the process of repeatedly returning to it, carefully breaking it up in parts and assembling them again until we can make sense of what we remember.”
― Laila Lalami, The Other Americans

“[about push notifications] Look, you're not Banana Republic's emergency contact, so why are you allowing them to message you at all hours of the day?”
― Ashlee Piper, No New Things: A Radically Simple 30-Day Guide to Saving Money, the Planet, and Your Sanity

“The present could never be untethered from the past, you couldn't understand one without the other.”
― Laila Lalami, The Other Americans

“And this was perhaps the first time in my life that death occurred to me as a reality. I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it—it, the physical act. I had thought of suicide when I was much younger, as, possibly, we all have, but then it would have been for revenge, it would have been my way of informing the world how awfully it had made me suffer. But the silence of the evening, as I wandered home, had nothing to do with that storm, that far off boy. I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room