Andrea

“Intimacy could distort one's vantage, that much was true. Sometimes trying to see the whole of a person could be like describing a painting with your nose pressed to the canvas, though my husband would have argued that I hadn't wanted to see from a different angle, hadn't wanted to step back.”
― Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories

“One learns by thinking about writing, and by talking
about writing-but primarily through writing.”
― Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

“forgiveness is how we unchain ourselves from the past.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“To perceive matter that casts no shadow, you must search not for its presence but for its consequence.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey