Lindi

“A lazy writer (it’s easy to hate things) or a versatile one? I don’t believe in an afterlife. We live and then we stop living. We exist and then we stop existing. That means I only get one chance to do a good job. I want to do a good job.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

“When Manya read, there was no waking her from her absorption; she heard nothing. A whole household might plan to tease and make a noise like all the zoos let loose with tin cans to play with and yet Manya wouldn't hear till her book was done. That was concentration and it was a joyful gift to have seized from the lucky-bag of life.”
― Eleanor Doorly, The Radium Woman: A Youth Edition of the Life of Madame Curie

“We think our hearts break only from endings - the love gone, the rooms empty, the future unhappening as we stand ready to step into it - but what about how they can shatter in the face of what is possible.”
― Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

“We're all building our world, right now, in real time. Let's build it better.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman