Emily

“There are consolations that the strongest human love is powerless to give.
(page 330)”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“ The man rolls over onto his back, face-to-face with the morning sky. The messages swarm him. Even here, homeless, he thinks: Nothing will be the same.
The spruces answer: Nothing has ever been the same.
We're all doomed, the man thinks.
We have always all been doomed.
But things are different this time.
Yes. You're here.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Don’t worry if your job is small and your rewards are few. Even the mighty Ironwood was once a nut, like you.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“A time of war is a time of amplified connection and disconnection. Our allegiance to everything we love takes on a dangerous primacy, while our fear of everything we hate dons the sheep's clothing of righteousness.”
― Jan Eliasberg, Hannah's War