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“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“there was a word for this: sonder. “The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.” Incredible, how naming something took nothing away from its stagger. Language could be totally impotent like that.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!

“It was not so hard, to pretend for a fixed duration; it was only eternity that she could not bear”
― The Death of Jane Lawrence
― The Death of Jane Lawrence
“You don’t have to have a reason to be tired. You don’t have to earn rest or comfort. You’re allowed to just be.”
― A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
― A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

“It seems very American to expect grief to change something. Like a token you cash in. A formula. Grieve x amount, receive y amount of comfort. Work a day in the grief mines and get paid in tickets to the company store.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!

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