“And then, if the girl herself was rubbled by an errant mortar shell, her eyes full of tears and aimed in their final living moment at that flower, which would weigh more on the cosmic scales: a tear of gratitude at the great beauty of a flower lifting through ash, or a tear of delirious rage?”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“The land knows you, even when you are lost.”
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“forever searching for love in forms it never exists, places it can never be”
― Cat’s Cradle
― Cat’s Cradle
“But I’ve never known what to do with people and the things I like, sometimes they weigh me down, ever since I was a girl.”
― Near to the Wild Heart
― Near to the Wild Heart
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