Alice Parker

“I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.”
― Arthur Golden

“I had always felt safe in a library, as if the books were there to protect me, like a fortress of words, thoughts and learning.”
― Anya Bergman, The Witches of Vardø

“How could one express in words these emotions of the body? Express that emptiness there? It was one's body feeling, not one's mind. To want and not to have sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have - to want and want - how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“biology has become an industry that is guided by a thirst for marketable knowledge, rather than by ethical and spiritual considerations.”
― Jeremy Narby, The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge