Barrett

“My friend met me at the diner for coffee. His family fled Iran one week before the Shah fell. He didn’t want to talk about the hum. I pressed him though. Your people have finally fallen into history, he said. The rest of us are already here. …”
― Jenny Offill, Weather

“You’ll wake up soon. It’s Christmas Eve morning. And I loved you.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Deal of a Lifetime

“And then it is another day and another and another but I will not go on about this because no doubt you too have experienced time.”
― Jenny Offill, Weather

“People ask me, “Have you tried yoga? Kombucha? This special water?” And I don’t have the energy to explain that yes, I’ve tried them. I’ve tried crystals and healing drum circles and prayer and everything. What I want to try is acceptance. I want to see what happens if I can simply accept myself for who I am: battered, broken, hoping for relief, still enduring somehow. I will still take a cure if it’s presented to me, but I am so tired of trying to bargain with the universe for some kind of cure. The price is simply too high to live chasing cures, because in doing so, I’m missing living my life. I know only that in chasing to achieve the person I once was, I will miss the person I have become.”
― Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century