Cate

“Years later, as a professor, Martin would try to find the words to articulate the power of togetherness in a world where togetherness had been corrupted -- and to explore the effect of the music, the surprising lengths the people had gone to to hear it and to play it, as evidence that music, and art in general, are basic requirements of the human soul. Not a luxury but a compulsion. He will think of it every time he goes to a museum or a concert or a play with a long line of people waiting to get inside.”
― Jessica Shattuck, The Women in the Castle

“White people always thought they were full of toxins, so you could make a lot of money just by claiming to be able to remove them.”
― Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart

“I devoured the books because they were the rays of light peeking out from the doorframe, and perhaps past that door there was another world,”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One