Richard Derus

“The cold was a sea, the house a ship, and the winter an endless waiting.”
― Henning Mankell, A Treacherous Paradise

“A big part of why America isn’t working is because far too many Americans neither know nor care how it’s supposed to work.”
― William Cooper, How America Works... and Why it Doesn't: A Brief Guide to the US Political System

“How boundless is the horoscope of spring! One can read it in a thousand different ways, interpret it blindly, spell it out at will, happy to be able to decipher anything at all amid the misleading divinations of birds. The text can be read forward or backward, lose its sense and find it again in many versions, in a thousand alternatives. Because the text of spring is marked by hints, ellipses, lines dotted on an empty azure, and because the gaps between the syllables are filled by the frivolous guesses and surmises of birds, my story, like that text, will follow many different tracks and will be punctuated by springlike dashes, sighs, and dots.”
― Bruno Schulz, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

“To anyone who has ever felt unappreciated, uninvited, or invisible… Your voice is more powerful than you think. You are allowed to exist without explanation. Never let the world convince you that your struggles are invalid.”
― Lola Akinmade Åkerström, In Every Mirror She's Black