Micah ☔️

“When we write about our lives, it's a form of time travel. We inhabit the body we were back then, and yet we do so from our safe distance in the future.”
― Lucy Knisley, Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos

“Rodrick’s punishment was that he had to answer a bunch of questions Mom wrote out for him. Did owning this magazine make you a better person? No. Did it make you more popular at school? No. How do you feel about having owned this type of magazine now? I feel ashamed. Do you have anything you want to say to women for having owned this offensive magazine? I’m sorry women.”
― Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid

“Our every worry, our every trouble, our every anxiety will then fall way- what happens to the bird does not concern it, he wrote. Our burdens are given up to God. Such innocence still of the animals and the smallest children, was torn from us by the awareness of death, which made us and our godless world.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, The Morning Star

“He remembers those vanished years. As though looking through a dusty window pane, the past is something he could see, but not touch. And everything he sees is blurred and indistinct.”
― Wong Kar-Wai