Marylin Haidri

“All the Blackwood women had taken the food that came from the ground and preserved it, and the deeply colored rows of jellies and pickles and bottled vegetables and fruit, maroon and amber and dark rich green, stood side by side in our cellar and would stand there forever, a poem by the Blackwood women.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“Parents are supposed to pass down physical traits to their children, but it’s my belief that all sorts of other things get passed down, too: motifs, scenarios, even fates.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“all these years I have looked through your limbs
to the river below and the roofs and the night
and you were the way I saw the world”
― W.S. Merwin, The Moon Before Morning

“And our conservationist-environmentalist-moral outrage is often (in its frustration) aimed at the logger or the rancher, when the real power is in the hands of people who make unimaginably larger sums of money, people impeccably groomed, excellently educated at the best universities - male and female alike - eating fine foods and reading classy literature, while orchestrating the investment and legislation that ruin the world.”
― Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild: With a New Preface by the Author