Rick Berdelle

“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

“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

“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

“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