Nicole

“When we’re young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know people, the better I like ravens.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“The world is now awash in monocultures of genetically uniform varieties, fed by chemical fertilizers.”
― Dan Barber, The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food

“Once someone tries a real extra virgin -- an adult or a child, anybody with taste buds -- they'll never go back to the fake kind. It's distinctive, complex, the freshest thing you've ever eaten. It makes you realize how rotten the other stuff is, literally rotten. But there has to be a first time. Somehow we have to get those first drops of real extra virgin oil into their mouths, to break them free from the habituation to bad oil, and from the brainwashing of advertising. There has to be some good oil left in the world for people to taste.”
― Tom Mueller, Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil