Rick Berdelle

“You think because you name it and tell it, it becomes? A story is a present, tied with a ribbon and a wish. Real things aren't so easy.”
― Julia Fine, What Should Be Wild

“Above him, around him, the elder dreams of soil. Dreams of glassy, glinting snow. Dreams of its own greatness - taller, wider, more light. It knows nothing of self-sabotage, regret, or restitution.”
― Julia Fine, What Should Be Wild

“Imagine all your life the earth is green and brown and quiet. Your days pass slowly. You celebrate the sun. All magic is of trees and dappled shadows, all mountains peaked eruptions from an old ancestral earth, a ground so sacred there has been no cause to name it.”
― Julia Fine, What Should Be Wild

“Peter would have said that behaviors are determined by principles, theories.

That the difference between Theory of God and Theory of Not God was actually quite slim, each a slightly different lens through which to choose to view the world. One a shade lighter, the other negligibly darker—what mattered was that both were held up to the eye and used to filter our experience. It was easier to change the lens than to remove the vehicle of understanding, easier to adjust my sense of how I fit into the world than reconceive of the world entirely.”
― Julia Fine, What Should Be Wild