Cindy Knoke

“Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“A public official must understand from his first day in office that any show of initiative will signal the end of his career because he isn't there to be meritorious but to reach his level of incompetence with dignity.”
― Isabelle Allende

“The thing about having a mental breakdown is that no matter how obvious it is that you're having one, it is somehow not obvious to you. I'm fine, you think. So what if I watched TV for twenty-four straight hours yesterday. I'm not falling apart. I'm just lazy. Why it's better to think yourself lazy than think yourself in distress, I'm not sure. But it was better. More than better: it was vital.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“We talk about books being passports to new worlds…but library cards are like intergalactic passports to the multiverse!”
― Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich