Kimberly

“The truth is, deep ends cause drowning. Baptisms by fire cause third-degree burns.”
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

“If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won't consider possibilities that aren't annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down. Not that that mystical stuff is necessarily true. The only thing that's capital-T True is that you get to decide how you're gonna try to see it.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Photographs make me forget if time is forwards or backwards. No, photographs make me wonder if there is a forwards or backwards.”
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

“To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings