Rick Berdelle

“Memory...is a wild and private place to which we only return by accident, as in a dream or song.”
― Julia Fine, The Upstairs House

“Some questions are birthed, rather than asked, and having been born they will cry until tended. I knew the story of Pandora's box. I knew the cost of Eve tasting the apple. I didn't care. I was led by my desire.”
― Julia Fine, What Should Be Wild

“Here I was, pondering the incongruity of being a mother and an academic, of devoting oneself to two projects, which is to say living a life, which is, I guess, no incongruity at all. Merely living, merely choosing, in each moment, who and what to which you will attend. The Latin, atendere, means to stretch.”
― Julia Fine, The Upstairs House

“I became the pit of the fruit that had once been me, my meat eaten slowly, bite by fleshy bite.”
― Julia Fine, What Should Be Wild