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

“Gloria had always found it silly that so much effort went into trying to send humans to space instead of learning how to get along on Earth.”
― Tananarive Due, The Reformatory

“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

“Maybe that relationship hubris came back to bite us in ass. We thought we were so much better than everyone else, and now we're a cliche.”
― Renee Carlino, This Used to Be Us