Debbie Notkin

“Every day was a lesson in how starved the eyes could grow for hue, for reds and golds; how starved the ears could grow for conga drums, for the blare of traffic, for dogs barking, for the baseball games chattering from TVs, for voices talking flatly, conversationally, with rising excitement in Spanish, for children playing in the streets, the Puerto Rican children whose voices sounded faster, harder, than Chicano Spanish, as if there were more metal in their throats.”
― Marge Piercy

“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice will not sleep forever.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Black holes are a gift, both physically and theoretically. They are detectable on the farthest reaches of the observable universe. They anchor galaxies, providing a center for our own galactic pinwheel and possibly every other island of stars. And theoretically, they provide a laboratory for the exploration of the farthest reaches of the mind. Black holes are the ideal fantasy scape on which to play out thought experiments that target the core truths about the cosmos.”
― Janna Levin, Black Hole Survival Guide

“After you died I could not hold a funeral,
And so my life became a funeral.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts