B.K. Loren > Quotes

“I have to leave now, but please know i'll be with you always. When you hear meadowlarks in the spring and see geese flying across the field in the fall, think of me. But please don't be sad. I always wanted you to be happy. Remember I will love you always. There were so many things I wanted to do still, so many things left to say to all of you. I wasn't afraid of dying. It was just leaving all of you that was so hard. We can't see beyond, but this much I know: I loved you all so much, and it was heaven having your love in return.”
― B.K. Loren

“I would like to be a fool, to keep the unnameable word in my heart, to speak in silence, in silence to speak, to move in stillness, to be still in movement, to end at the beginning, to begin at the end. I would like to be a fool.”
― BK Loren, Animal, Mineral, Radical: Essays on Wildlife, Family, and Food

“Annihilate all that you hate and fear, and it takes with it all that you love and desire.”
― BK Loren, Animal, Mineral, Radical: Essays on Wildlife, Family, and Food

“The pretense that place does not matter turns us all into straw dogs subjected to the whims of marketing. If we are unattached, we need. We need so many things to ground us. If we point the lens into the core of us and no galaxy appears, then what? We dangle, storyless, bland words rolling across the windy landscapes of our tongues. We stay awake all hours of the night, peering out windows until, at last, we let go of longing and accept the constellations that connect us all. We rest our eyes on a horizon that tells a story from the bones out, embraces us from the skin in, lets us rise from the dust of where we’ve been and where we are, like coyotes, hunting, hungry, finally knowing exactly what it is that feeds us. MINERAL AS IN SOLID, CRYSTALLINE, INTERLOCKED, CREATING A SOMETIMES”
― B.K. Loren, Animal, Mineral, Radical: Essays on Wildlife, Family, and Food

“I would like to be a fool. A raven. A coyote. A man whose body is painted in wide bands of alternating black and white, my face like a zebra’s, my body a totem.”
― BK Loren, Animal, Mineral, Radical: Essays on Wildlife, Family, and Food

“until I accept the world for exactly what it is: unfair, mean, graceful, luscious, and magically illogical.”
― BK Loren, Animal, Mineral, Radical: Essays on Wildlife, Family, and Food

“our fates are cut by chisels we hold in our own hands, that circumstances do not limit, that time and culture do not dictate. But they do.”
― BK Loren, Animal, Mineral, Radical: Essays on Wildlife, Family, and Food

“This wasn’t the way in California. It turns out, laid-back referred to a style of dress, not a way of life. Coffee was essential to survival. Putting in fifty hours a week, I was a slacker.”
― BK Loren, Animal, Mineral, Radical: Essays on Wildlife, Family, and Food

“What I went in for, what I wanted most, was always the same thing that made me back away. He had always called it smart and cautious. I only felt it as fear.”
― B.K. Loren, Theft: A Novel