Kat (kvcatnip)

“Hot fury flared within Anna. “Why do we bother?” she said. “Why do we try to fit in when we can just take care of ourselves?” “It’s not about fitting in, it’s about finding balance. Rattlesnakes and field mice. Owls and rabbits. Alligators and deer. They’re predator and prey, yet they share the same ground. Mind you that the people in town aren’t predators and that we on the reservation aren’t prey. You’d think we’d be able to share the same ground. You’d think it’d be easy.”
― Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

“so I am trying hard to be patient with winter this year, to settle into the season of waiting with more joy than I ever managed during winter’s last gasp in the past.”
― Margaret Renkl, The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

“What if resting, all by itself, is the real act of holiness? What if honoring the gift of our only life in this gorgeous world means taking time every week to slow down? To sleep? To breathe? The natural world has never needed us more than it needs us now, but we can’t be of much use to it if we remain in a perpetual state of exhaustion and despair.”
― Margaret Renkl, The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

“Just,” he repeated. “Just the truth.” “Honesty, truth. Authenticity. However you wish to call it.” “That is, in fact, a lot to ask.” She gave a shrug. “But is anything worth having without it?”
― Evie Dunmore, A Rogue of One's Own