Jacob

“As my physics teacher always said, “My dear students! Just remember that money solves all problems, even differential equations.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

“But Kimberly’s unhappiness was inward, unacknowledged, shielded by her desire for things to be as they should, and also by hope: she believed in other people’s happiness because it meant that she, too, might one day have it. Laura’s unhappiness was different, spiky, she wished that everyone around her were unhappy because she had convinced herself that she would always be.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“In Oregon, a far larger honey mushroom (Armillaria ostoyae) mycelial mat found on a mountaintop covers more than 2,400 acres and is possibly more than 2,200 years old”
― Paul Stamets, Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

“Mass resistance was possible only when people believed they had the collective capacity to change things. For poor people, this required identifying with the oppressed, and counting yourself among them—which was something most trailer park residents were absolutely unwilling to do.”
― Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City