Mandy Bode-Krohn

“So many of those things you say you can never be or will never do are the very things that make a person human and as painful as the human experience can be, it is uniquely ours. It can't be replicated. It can't be synthesized. It is meant to be temporary. This life and the relationships in it, they're all passing. As horrible and painful as that can be, we have to hold onto each other loosely. Till death do us part is the best case scenario in every relationship, whether it's a parent, or a child or a spouse. It sucks, but it's the hand we've been dealt.”
― Sammy Scott

“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

“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

“Nature was beautiful. But we did such a good job of making it ugly.”
― Lucy Rose, The Lamb