“The stories shatter. Or you wear them out or leave them behind. Over t...” — Rebecca Solnit Quote

“The stories shatter. Or you wear them out or leave them behind. Over time the story of the memory loses its power. Over time you become someone else. Only when the honey turns to dust are you free.”

“Stories migrate secretly. The assumption that whatever we now believe is just common sense, or what we always knew, is a way to save face. It's also a way to forget the power of a story and of a storyteller, the power in the margins, and the potential for change.”

“I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.”

“The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths, and species extinctions, as well as in the loss of some of the things that make this planet a blue-green jewel, including its specialized habitats from the melting Arctic to bleaching coral reefs.”

“The term 'politics of prefiguration' has long been used to describe the idea that if you embody what you aspire to, you have already succeeded. That is to say, if your activism is already democratic, peaceful, creative, then in one small corner of the world these things have triumphed. Activism, in this model, is not only a toolbox to change things but a home in which to take up residence and live according to your beliefs, even if it's a temporary and local place...”

“I took some time out for life.”

“I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.”

“(On time) Time is not a standalone entity, it is the measure of change. Therefore, without form, time is nil.”

“Without space, there is no time.”

“Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.”

“Reaching the ultimate laws of physics requires distancing from the paradigms of science and the paradigm of how a human brain usually thinks or functions. To understand the ultimate laws of physics, the human mind must adjust to the requirements or logic of phenomena that seem paradoxical and absurd to us as humans.”