a quote from rita mae brown, lesbian novelist and activist
“She had a passionate longing for the garden, the darkness, the pure sky, the stars.”
— Anton Chekhov, “After the Theatre”
“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different…”
—
C.S. Lewis
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via amortizing)