Erik

“Before the baby, before the diagnosis, before the pandemic. Before. Before when I was earnest and clever and ignorant, I thought, life is a series of choices. I curated my own life until, one day, I couldn't. I had accepted the burden of limitless choices only to find out I had few to make.”
― Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

“Our lives are not problems to be solved. We can have meaning and beauty and love, but nothing even close to resolution.”
― Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

“People say carpe diem. I mean, yes, unless you need a nap.”
― Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

“Listen here's the thing – I don't know what you kids are up to, but I do know one thing: laws are threats made by the dominant socio-economic, ethnic group in a given nation. It's just a promise of violence that's enacted and police are basically an occupying army, you know what I mean? You guys want to make some bacon?”
― Brennan Lee Mulligan