Hanna

“Death crowded out all the voices that had been prodding him along. In that quiet aftermath, he listened to a new and perfect internal silence, waiting for the small voice that was his actual desire, divorced from practicality and social expectation. When that voice finally came, soft and distant, raspy with disuse, it spoke of childhood memories of the woods and the wild things that called it home.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Strange Animals

“Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts—only in the truth. You get the facts from outside. The truth you get from inside.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

“Don't meet the wild to feel smart. Meet her to fall in love.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Leaf Litter

“Often, to heal, we need a reason to seek healing. Depression tells us there are no such reasons, that healing is hard and not worth the effort. Nature told me something different.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Something in the Woods Loves You