Rachel Gorham

“If you took everyone with mental-health issues out of this place they’d have to shut it down. Most people in here were, one way or another, just taking another step in a life of chaos, pulled by the tides of a world that neither wanted them nor needed them. Very few people in here were like Connie. Just plain bad.”
― Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed

“One thing I've learned in the woods is that there is no such thing as 'random'. Everything is steeped in meaning, colored by relationships, one thing with another.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“I had known it would happen from the first time I held her: from that moment on, all her growing would be away from me. It is the fundamental unfairness of parenthood that if we do our jobs well, the deepest bond we are given will walk out the door with a wave over the shoulder.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“Humans can't be fixed," says Ibrahim. "We're not lawnmowers.”
― Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed