Anne Ballon

“The stars are very thick. I understand finally that the sky is not above me, but that I am in the sky. This is related to the crow. And the crow is related to the baby. And the crow is related to you. Maybe the way the baby was related to you. Not through blood, but through me. Through a particular shared longing for increase.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“They stand in each other’s arms, already naked and so alive. They glow in the dark like the white flowers, like allegorical statues in a midnight garden. Youth. Love. Stupidity. Lust.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“The earth holds things in its body. In clay. In ice. The real. The unreal. Time. Each other. All the chances we had.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“I think it is healing behavior, to look at something so broken and see the possibility and wholeness in it.”
― Adrienne Maree Brown, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds