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“All cherry trees?” “Yes, all of them. My wife loved them.” “They must be beautiful in the spring.” “They are crawling with insects. In the fall there are dead leaves all over the place, and in winter the bare branches are bleak and ...more
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Madeleine Ryan
“It’s so weird when people don’t go outside to enjoy the rain, or to see a rainbow when it appears, because they’re ‘in the middle of something’. It’s like, I’m sorry? Do you have better things to do? Like, what better things are there to do? What pressing or urgent matters could they possibly be to attend to? It’s fucking raining! There might be a fucking rainbow! Beings from other planets and dimensions would do anything to be a part of this into witness this shit! Get outside, dammit!”
Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

Georgia   Scott
“Before there is science, there are stories to explain the world. They make it happier somehow.”
Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

Madeleine Ryan
“People are obsessed with what they don't allow themselves to have, and then they become controlled by it. Forbidden fruit is everyone's main meal.”
Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

Madeleine Ryan
“I worry that intimacy and tenderness are becoming impossible ideals, rather than lived experiences. Surviving on this planet right now seems to be more about figuring out how to withstand being violated and exploited than it is about cultivating fulfilling relationships with ourselves, and with others.”
Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

Madeleine Ryan
“It's important to resist the urge to put things we can't comprehend into cages and to try to make them dance for us.”
Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

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