Jenn

“To love life, really, must mean caring not only for the garden plot but also the wilderness beyond the fence, beauty and mystery for their own sake, because of how meager a world would be without them.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never

“A creature with a big enough head to make a contract should have the sense to make one it can keep.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never

“The loss of empathy is also the loss of humanity, and that's no small tradeoff.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never

“Due to the unearthly flatness where a city had been famously incinerated, the events he already called his life were growing inconsiderable before he had practised making them important. This derived from a sense not of proportion but of profound chaos, a welter in which his own lucky little order appeared miraculous but inconsequential; and from a revelation, nearly religious, that the colossal scale of evil could only be matched or countered by some solitary flicker of intense and private humanity.”
― Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus