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“if you look at humanity's per-capita energy use today, it's as thought each human being has twenty-three servants for him or her, every hour of every day”
― leif wenar, Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World

“We see all of these things that we can never buy, all of these places we can never go, all of these people we can never touch or love or be.”
― Leif Wenar, Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World

“I used to think death might be hidden somewhere on our bodies.
Tucked behind the pupil like a coin, slid beneath the thumb nail, ribbon-wrapped “around a wrist bone. A sharp, dark sliver; a loose, pale pellet. Each person different. Each lifespan set. On the day of your death, it melts out through your entire body, a warm, broken bath bead. Until then, it waits-sealed and silent.”
― Aimee Bender

“Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.”
― James Tiptree Jr.