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“Stories are told to modify our perceptions of the world, so it’s rare that they don’t do all these things to us.”
― Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

“No, better to have people, lots and lots of people filling the rooms of their house, crowding the yard. Better to have voices and laughter, colorful dresses and flashy jewelry, a clatter to conceal the emptiness.”
― Hala Alyan, Salt Houses

“Emotions swirl within her like the complex dish of maqlouba the aunts used to make in Nablus, the raisins impossible to pick from the rice.”
― Hala Alyan, Salt Houses

“Myers and Hustak suggest that the word involution—from the word involve—better describes this tendency: a “rolling, curling, turning inward.” In their view, the concept of involution better captures the entangled pushing and pulling of “organisms constantly inventing new ways to live with and alongside one another.”
― Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures