Javier

“Before the power of Nature, its inescapable presence and fixed dominion, all men and women are as mice in the talons of the hawk. In a city, I could well imagine—surrounded by streets and commerce and carriages, everyone dressed Sunday-fine, with the forests and fields only a thin shadow on a distant horizon—a body might trick itself into believing that mankind held the world in its white-knuckled hand. But on our homestead, the wilderness ran right up to the front door.”
― Olivia Hawker, One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow

“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Madman

“whatever a body expects their life to be, that’s what they’ll make of it in the end.”
― Olivia Hawker, One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow

“What seemed an individual, whole and distinct, was tied inextricably to its neighbors.”
― Olivia Hawker, One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow