Sara Katrib

“Ah, you realists! I am not ashamed of my romanticism.
Ah, you, abstractionists: I will confess to you my passion for objects, earth, nature.
Should I pretend I am a stone when emotions, memories surge and overflow me, and I am dreaming of home, and melting snow?”
― Jonas Mekas, I Had Nowhere to Go

“Be alert to these invisible quotation marks, even within a word.”
― Jacques Derrida

“Who will be lost in the story we tell ourselves? Who will be lost in ourselves?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Love for trees pours out of her—the grace of them, their supple experimentation, the constant variety and surprise. These slow, deliberate creatures with their elaborate vocabularies, each distinctive, shaping each other, breeding birds, sinking carbon, purifying water, filtering poisons from the ground, stabilizing the micro-climate. Join enough living things together, through the air and underground, and you wind up with something that has intentions.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory