“I had no idea where to look, or what I was looking for, but I know now that all the important journeys start that way.”—Jeanette Winterson’s Lighthousekeeping
“The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can only be preserved by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.”—Henry David Thoreau
“‘You have the variables and you have the invariables, and you want to use them all, but you work around the invariables’…. An invariable. No word had ever sounded to me more like love.”—How Should a Person Be (Sheila Heti)
“I knew the value of what was in that sack. I would carry that sack and never put it down. I would carry it to the end.”—Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be
“…Such a person inevitably looks back on life as it nears its end with a feeling of emptiness and sadness, aware of what they have built: nothing. In their quest for life without failure, suffering, or doubt, that is what they achieve: a life empty of all those things that make a human life meaningful.”—How Should a Person Be —Sheila Heti
“Young progressives committed to social justice…did not want to do the hard work of changing and reorganizing our existing system in ways that would affirm the values of peace and love, or democracy and justice.”—bell hooks “All About Love”
“Friends are cool, too, you know. But there’s usually only one person who can make you not feel alone.”—Kurt Vile (interview before doing acoustic version of “Baby’s Arms”)
“…he defines love as ‘the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.’….. When we are loving we openly and honestly express care, affection, responsibility, respect, commitment, and trust.”—bell hooks “All About Love”
“People come and people go, sometimes without goodbye and sometimes without hello. She’s got one magic trick, one and that’s it….”—“Magic Trick” -M.Ward
