Julia McGuire

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“We are stardust
Billion-year old carbon
And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden”
― Joni Mitchell, Joni Mitchell: The Complete Poems and Lyrics

“There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. ”
― Joni Mitchell

“Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bought and sold by some idiot employer, not having the moments of her days valued in fractions of a dollar by somebody other than herself.”
― Charles Frazier, Nightwoods