Katie

“it was the small pleasures of his work that seemed in their simplicities to fill him to the brim.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

“Santa Cruz was the safest place on Earth I could imagine: my sweet hometown, where the forests kissed the beaches on foggy mornings and their tender whispers liked you to sleep at night”
― Manjula Martin, The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History

“What could put an end to the worst of the internet? Social and economic collapse would do it, or perhaps a series of antitrust cases following by a package of hard regulatory legislation that would somehow also dismantle the internet's fundamental profit model. At this point it's clear that collapse will almost definitely come first”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

“People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts.”
― Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator