Alexandra

“...much of the discovery of the world was based on failure rather than on success--on tactical errors and pipe dreams.”
― David Grann, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

“I wanted to capture what language ability tests could never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.”
― Amy Tan, The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life

“And didn't it always go like that--body parts not lining up the way you wanted them to, all of it a little bit off, as if the world itself were an animated sequence of longing and envy and self-hatred and grandiosity and failure and success, a strange and endless cartoon loop that you couldn't stop watching, because, despite all you knew by now, it was still so interesting.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings

“We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See