Catalina

“There’s something about the faces of everyone in my family…I think you can see in our eyes the kind of sadness, which is in two places at once — mourning the past, grieving the future. Sad in a historically significant and visually satisfying way. Looking sad like it’s your job.”

Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla. Catalina. First edition. New York: One World, 2024.

Ursula LeGuin

I went looking for that quote about wants and needs again. Found this tribute that led with these lines:

All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people.

—Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind, 2004.