Nathan

“There are two paths to magic: Imagination and paying attention. Imagination is the fiction we love, the truths built of falsehoods, glowing dust on the water’s surface. Paying attention is about intentional noticing, participating in making meaning to lend new weight to our world. An acorn. The geometry of a beehive. The complexity of whale song. The perfect slowness of a heron.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Something in the Woods Loves You

“When I looked into my backyard, seeing a squirrel take an offered seed, my bruised mind trying to grasp any firm point in the weightless haze of my pain and uncertainty, I felt the tug of a wordless lesson in those creatures’ surety of place and purpose. I couldn’t conceive of a world where they were questioning if they deserved their food or their spot on the bough. I couldn’t imagine that they questioned whether their lives were adding up to something worth having, that they were doubting past leaps or the quality of their dreys.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Something in the Woods Loves You

“What better way for me to prove that my father was correct—that I’m worthless and unlovable—than by pursuing someone who will never love me?”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient