7 Quotes by Hilary Leichter

They noticed the continuous departures of kindness and sloughed their skins to wear their hearts on their sleeves as reminders. They always noticed, with relief, prodigal kindness making its inevitable return.

There is nothing lonelier than lights extinguishing themselves at the end of a long day, no one left to do them the simple kindness of snuffing out.

No one is ever exactly who they claim to be, but some people are closer than others.

Living is also a state of mourning.

The human resources cabin is mostly bare. A large poster on the wall features a cat with a peg leg paw. "There is no Purr in Pirate!" reads the caption.

She noted the fallacy of permanence in a world where everything ends and desire that kind of permanence all the same.

It takes an aggressive empathy to accurately replace a person.