Ciaran Mealer

“Once, while cleaning the trout before I went home in the almost night, I had a vision of going over to the poor graveyard and gathering up grass and fruit jars and tin cans and markers and wilted flowers and bugs and weeds and clods and going home and putting a hook in the vise and tying a fly with all that stuff and then going outside and casting it up into the sky, watching it float over clouds and then into the evening star.

(from Trout Fishing on the Bevel, page 21)”
― Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America / The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar

“there is hope in maybe.
Maybe.
Such a tiny word.
Such a powerful word.”
― Heather Vogel Frederick, Much Ado About Anne

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

“Love is an expression of power. We can use it to transform our world.”
― Ericka Huggins