“…and when you can do all that, you can find a different world. A world so peaceful, so beautiful, endless — and desolate. With one breath, I’m part of it.” — Johanna, Under the Ice

“I don’t just want to make people laugh. I want to make them see.” — A.A. Milne, Goodbye Christopher Robin

The Dawn of Eve — a manifesto akin to a female version of Lord of the Flies

“One can not let oneself live in fear of that. He can kick me but I will not let him rob me of my enjoyment of this egg, that coffee, or this day. I will not let fear take my life from me.” — Leo Voronsky, The Great

“Growing older does not seem to make you more certain, Nella thinks. It simply presents you with more reasons for doubt.” ― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“I think if there’s a sort of sadness for people under forty-five, it has something to do with pleasure, and achievement, and entertainment, like a sort of emptiness at the heart of what they thought was going on.” — David Foster Wallace

“Here, there is only one tense. There is no future. The past and present are the same thing.” — Diana, Spencer

“We Sherpa people have a great respect for that mountain. She’s the mother God of the Earth. Over here, we climb the mountain, but it’s a holy place. Western people approach it as a physical challenge. To see how close you can get to death.” — Phurba Tashi

“It is said that Bushmen have two types of hungry people. Little Hunger is someone who is physically hungry, and Great Hunger is someone who is hungry for survival. Why do we live, what is the significance of living? People who are always looking for these answers. This kind of person is really hungry, and they call them Great Hunger.” — Hai Mi, Burning

“You lack the right feet, turnout, achilles tendons, and leg and torso length. You simply have the wrong body for ballet. You could be a professional dancer in Vegas. And at 13, you are already far too old to be considered.” — excerpt from one of Misty Copeland’s rejection letters from a notorious ballet academy

A montage to Fight Club and Kawaii girl gangs, directed by Jodeb, featuring cast recruited from the Lookbook street style community

“The Hymn of a Pearl tells the tale of a prince who was sent west to Egypt to find a pearl but when he arrived the people of Egypt poured him a cup and he went into a deep sleep forgetting he was the son of the King, forgetting about the pearl. Malick uses this story as a metaphor of losing one’s self, of one’s sense of meaning, of purpose.” — Like Stories of Old