Grove Ayers

“He loves me, he loves me not, we are taught to say, as we tear the flower from its flowerness. To arrive at love, then, is to arrive through obliteration. Eviscerate me, we mean to say, and I'll tell you the truth.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“We desperately need more cohesion in the environmental movement and a great deal less theater, tribalism, and self-aggrandizement.”
― Jim Harrison, Search for the Genuine, The: Nonfiction, 1970-2015

“Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave.

And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. You know it's one conception of death for Buddhists: the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it's supposed to be.

The Good Place”
― Chidi

“Long days and pleasant nights, stranger.” “And may you have twice the number.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger