Tina Beattie

“In a way, people like her, those who wield a pen, can be dangerous. At once a suspicion of fakery springs to mind – that such a Person is not him or herself, but an eye that’s constantly watching, and whatever it sees it changes into sentences; in the process it strips reality of its most essential quality – its inexpressibility.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“And that the world is a great big net, it is a whole, where no single thing exists separately; every scrap of the world, every last tiny piece, is bound up with the rest by a complex Cosmos of correspondences, hard for the ordinary mind to penetrate. That is how it works. Like a Japanese car.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“This new powerful form of hidden persuasion involved ‘setting free’ the uncaring wishful part of the self while subtly drawing the caring reality-based part into a collusion, thus weakening it through corrupting it. I suggest the most dangerous form of disavowal is the kind that says this kind of persuasion and corruption will not affect me. When an entire culture swings to consumerism, it takes a certain arrogance to suppose one will not be drawn into the culture. It takes constant struggle not to be pulled into the culture’s perverse framing. Consumerism essentially involves encouraging people to consume, devour, take over, over-run, the caring reality-based self through a gradual process of corrupting what things truly mean.”
― Sally Weintrobe, Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare

“When you tell a story, the first person you must convince is yourself; if you can make yourself believe it’s true, then everyone else will follow.”
― Raynor Winn, The Salt Path