Mandy Bode-Krohn

“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

“Kids are not our clones. They grow and change and we have to get to know them all over again at every new juncture.”
― Renee Carlino, This Used to Be Us

“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