Mandy Bode-Krohn

“I wondered if we were born with something broken inside us. Maybe it was in the deepest marrow of our bones, some place we couldn't see or touch. Maybe that's why we couldn't love each other the way we were supposed to.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb

“human equivalent of unsalted butter,”
― Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

“I didn't love the brides, and they certainly didn't love me, but at least there was finally one thing I understood about myself when everything I knew in the world had come undone. Breasts really are fantastic! I mean just the best, absolutely divine. I could live for 1000 more years and never tire of them.”
― Kiersten White, Lucy Undying

“How we think ripples out to how we behave. If we view these berries, or that spring, as an object, as property, it can be exploited as a commodity in a market economy. When something moves from the status of gift to the status of commodity, we can become detached from mutual responsibility. We know the consequences of that detachment.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World