Kate Seader

“My definition of forgiveness is a sigh, very like a sigh of relief, on which the memory of evil is breathed out.

With letting go of the memory, discontinuing the incessant replaying of pain, and instead feeling the unmitigated overness of the evil, the evildoer often looks quite different: flawed, like me, a child of God, like me. Forgiven, like me.”
― Nevada Barr

“Few deaths can match the refined agony of being the one left behind”
― Tana French, In the Woods

“A tree in the woods can signify shade and spiritual oneness, and the end of a life so brutally taken.”
― Carolyn Finney, Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors

“Yet when the trauma-hero myth is taken as representing the ultimate truth of more than a decade of global aggression, we allow the psychological suffering endured by those we sent to kill for us displace and erase the innocents killed in our name.”
― Roy Scranton, We're Doomed. Now What?: Essays on War and Climate Change