Rosanne

“The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself.”
― Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

“The mountain was as powerful as the tide, just...in a different way.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

“The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

“I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin