Jenny ☾⋆

“A forest floor, the Woodland villagers knew, is a living thing. Vast civilizations lay within the mosaic of dirt: hymenopteran labyrinths, rodential panic rooms, life-giving airways sculpted by the traffic of worms, hopeful spiders’ hunting cabins, crash pads for nomadic beetles, trees shyly locking toes with one another. It was here that you’d find the resourcefulness of rot, the wholeness of fungi.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“You mustn't ever say "yes" to a god, even a little one. That's how they become what they are. They will hate your "no", and will strive to refuse it, for a god is only a god when it is absolute. Your "no" unmakes them. That is why you must resist Sunai. If divinity relies on our obedience, we survive only when we defy it.”
― Emma Mieko Candon, The Archive Undying

“The trees were full of crows and the woods were full of madmen.
The pit was full of bones and her hands were full of wires.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“Everybody thinks they're the exception to the rule, and that's exactly where the trouble starts. One person can do a lot of damage.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built