Megan

“Carthago delenda est”
― Cato

“(T)he world is full of people busily making things into how they think the world ought to be, and burning huge parts of it to the ground, utterly and accidentally destroying things in the process without even knowing they are doing so. And that any of us might be doing that without knowing it, any of us, all the time.”
― Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights

“It's pretty here," Dex said. "I wouldn't have imagined I'd say that about a place like this, but--"
"Yes, it is," Mosscap said, as if making a decision within itself. "It is. Dying things often are."
Dex raised an eyebrow. "That's a little macabre"
"Do you think so?" said Mosscap with surprise. "Hmm. I disagree." It absently touched a soft fern growing nearby, petting the fronds like fur. "I think there's something beautiful about being lucky enough to witness a thing on its way out.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“I myself have withered like the winter tree before blossoming anew. In all that time and chaos, I knew sorrow and elation, but I was never 'fine'. I submerged myself completely in the pain and in the pleasure.”
― Madeleine Roux, A Moment in Verse