Steph

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
― Zadie Smith

“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking