Carla

“The three of us spend much of our week together at art museums and botanic gardens and other tourist attractions. We are drawn to these places of silent staring and confused, enervated wandering because they make us seem and feel less like freaks as we stare in speechless shock at one another.”
― Kathryn Harrison, The Kiss

“though she hurried him on, he dawdled, his head back, squinting at the stars. There were no revelations to be had there. Just pinpricks of light in a plain heaven. But he saw for the first time how fine that was. That in a world too full of loss and rage they be remote: the minimum of glory. As she led him across the lightless ground, time and again he could not prevent his gaze from straying skyward.”
― Clive Barker, The Damnation Game

“It feels ... as though doors were opening all over the world... It's bigger, somehow, the world.”
― Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy

“Could illness and pain hold greater purpose than we imagine?”
― Cindee Snider Re, Finding Purpose: Rediscovering Meaning in a Life with Chronic Illness