Izzy

“And we the people are so vulnerable. Our bodies are shot with mortality. Our legs are fear and our arms are time. These chill humors seep through our capillaries, weighting each cell with an icy dab of nonbeing, and that dab grows and swells and sucks the cell dry. That is why physical courage is so important—it fills, as it were, the holes—and why it is so invigorating. The least brave act, chance taken and passage won, makes you feel loud as a child.”
― Annie Dillard

“I want someone to care enough to say more than just "It's up to you what you do with your life." I don't have any opinions and I don't trust myself.”
― Phoebe Gloeckner

“It's common sense: when you move in, you try to learn the neighborhood.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

“Maybe it hadn't been a community, but it had been a place. Now there weren't any places left, just separate houses with separate televisions and separate televisions and less and less dropping by.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula