John

“What it means to be a good person, a moral person, is calculated differently in times of crisis than in ordinary circumstances,” she says. She pulls up a slide of people having a picnic by a lake. Blue skies, green trees, white people.

“Suppose you go with some friends to the park to have a picnic. This act is, of course, morally neutral, but if you witness a group of children drowning in the lake and you continue to eat and chat, you have become monstrous.”
― Jenny Offill, Weather

“Do not believe that because you are a revolutionary you must feel sad.”
― Jenny Offill, Weather

“And then it is another day and another and another but I will not go on about this because no doubt you too have experienced time.”
― Jenny Offill, Weather

“Young person worry: What if nothing I do matters?
Old person worry: What if everything I do does?”
― Jenny Offill, Weather