Allie Dechow

“How can one think of art institutions in an age that is defined by planetary civil war, growing inequality, and proprietary digital technology? The boundaries of the institution have become fuzzy.”
― Hito Steyerl, Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War

“It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion.  I had left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I came back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of ruth for her great sufferings, and a strong yearning to forget and forgive all injuries—to be reconciled and clasp hands in amity.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Longing, this longing to possess, to become, to break like a wave on a rock and reform, and break again, and wash away. This is a necessary part of any ecosystem, but it unsettles others, this inability to be satisfied.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This is How You Lose the Time War

“For these writers, attention was a form of devotion and noticing continuous with worship.”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Wild Places