Steven > Steven's Quotes

“But there’s no grand reward for passivity, just pain and regret and an emptiness that’s hard to articulate.”
― Joshua Fields Millburn, Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists

“I have never heard anyone speculate on the origins and function of irony, but I can say with confidence that it is only a little less pervasive in our universe than carbon.”
― Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays

“Those marginalized for one aspect of their nature are bound to have sympathies with those marginalized for another, but no marginalized group moves to the center solely by its own efforts—such is the paradox of power. It takes a gravitational pull by those kindred to the cause who are already in relative positions of power or privilege.”
― Maria Popova, Figuring