☼Marian☼

“Habits were difficult to break. The habit of living, the habit of fear … even the habit of love.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Wild Seed

“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“it is true that we all do live in the ruins of the lives of other generations, so there is a seeming continuity which is important because it deceives us.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“One for the blackbird, one for the crow, one for the cutworm, and one to grow.”
― Olivia Hawker, One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow