Library of Infinities

Quotes from various authors and genres and some of my own writing.

[libraryofinfinities]

“Glennon, you refer to God as "she"—why do you believe that God's a female?

I don't. I think it's ridiculous to think of God as anything that could possibly be gendered. But as long as the expression of God as female is unimaginable to many while the expression of God as male feels perfectly acceptable—and as long as women continue to be undervalued and abused and controlled here on Earth—I'll keep using it.”

– Glennon Doyle, Untamed

[libraryofinfinities]

“The opposite of sensitive is not brave. It’s not brave to refuse to pay attention, to refuse to notice, to refuse to feel and know and imagine. The opposite of sensitive is insensitive, and that’s no badge of honor.”

- Glennon Doyle, Untamed

[libraryofinfinities]

all throughout our lives of privilege

we the children have been taught

the greatness of our nation

and they thought

we would never discover the lives that were lost

as we rose to greatness

but every day we see more clearly

the flaws of the system

of the ideals in which we are expected to perpetuate

every day we listen

to the people who lost when we gained

every day we remember what was not written:

we tore up the grass from

under the feet of those who grew with it,

the green fading to brown

and in our greatness decided it was our

god given right to claim the land we had found

we climbed mountains that stood tall

and planted flags on land that was not our own

superimposing our name and our culture

over hundreds of years of land sown

by its true inhabitants, doing the same with all those

who didn’t look like us, erasing all they had known

we opened our gates to outsiders

and shoved them through

and yet we didn’t approve

when they wanted to stay, too

we told them to go back

to where they came from, but where did we come from?

what do we have that they lack?

a lighter shade, a “better” accent,

a higher pedestal with which to stand on their backs?

no,

they never told us

these things that we should have known

no,

we were never shown

what we stepped on to rise so high up

but history has a strength

unburdened by shame

and it will be carried through the centuries

forever bringing forth the names

of the people who shaped it

and even without people to name,

there will be memories

and even without memories,

there will be legends

and history goes on and on,

remembered

we the children have been taught

the greatness of our nation

and we who know how great it is not

have the power to change what is taught

[libraryofinfinities]

“A generation reaching consciousness in a society that lacked any. The generation that despite the consensus that declared change impossible hankered for change all the same.”

—Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

[libraryofinfinities]

“Abyss: Respond at once!”

—Aleksandra Lun, The Palimpsests

[libraryofinfinities]

“None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?”

—Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

[libraryofinfinities]

“People...are like houses with vast rooms and tiny windows.

-Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homosapien’s Agenda

[libraryofinfinities]

“As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

[libraryofinfinities]

“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

[poetic-cataclysm]

“Las únicas mujeres con las que debes compararte son con la mujer que fuiste y con la mujer que quieres ser.”

— Tony E. A. Aprende De Ti.

[libraryofinfinities]

“Just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe yourself.”

— Emma Cline,The Girls

[saveflowers1]

Art by Margaret Ely Webb, 1918, “Aldine Readers, Book Two.”

“Lady Moon”, verse by Lord Houghton.

[wnq-writers]

“I don’t want to fall in love anymore, I feel like I’m constantly repeating myself; telling people my favourite songs, showing them my favourite movies and TV shows, my favourite colour, places I like to visit, just everything. And I’m tired of repeating myself, I don’t have the energy anymore. I want someone who already knows that a particular song is my favourite because it makes me cry happy tears, I want someone who knows that this movie is my favourite, because one of my earliest memories was watching it as a kid, when we were still a family. I don’t want to give people parts of me only for them to become a stranger again, It’s not fair. I’m tired”

— blue-eyes-xo  (via wnq-writers)

[libraryofinfinities]

“Courage is not the ability to face your fear, heroically, once, but is the strength to do it day after day. Night after night. Faith without end. Love without border.

Sunil Yapa, Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

[libraryofinfinities]

“What we require of others so that we may live our lives of easy convenience. Dad, there are people who work all day every day for thirty years assembling the three wires that make a microwave timer beep. What are we supposed to think of this? How do they survive it? Why do we ask them to?”

Sunil Yapa, Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

[libraryofinfinities]

“What a violence of the spirit to not know the world.”

Sunil Yapa, Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The Kids Are Alright by Pia Guerra https://thenib.com/the-kids-are-alright h/t Fipi Lele

[workin9to5]

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