Jane

“My mood settles around me, a wool coat that seems to grow heavier with the months in which I accomplish very little--and then, since the coat is too heavy to allow movement, accomplish nothing at all.”
― Mark Doty, Dog Years

“In England Have My Bones White wrote one of the saddest sentences I have ever read: ‘Falling in love is a desolating experience, but not when it is with a countryside.’ He could not imagine a human love returned. He had to displace his desires onto the landscape, that great, blank green field that cannot love you back, but cannot hurt you either.”
― Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

“I was vaguely attracted to both library science and accounting, for the way that these disciplines impose order on chaos.”
― Kathleen Norris

“[Prayer] will not protect you. It will help your soul. It's for while you're alive.”
― Phil Klay, Redeployment