megan h.

“Is it odd to see a book within a book? It shouldn’t be. Books like each other. We understand each other. You could even say we are all related, enjoying a kinship that stretches like a rhizomatic network beneath human consciousness and knits the world of thought together. Think of us as a mycelium, a vast, subconscious fungal mat beneath a forest floor, and each book a fruiting body. Like mushrooms, we are a collectivity. Our pronouns are we, our, us.”
― Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness

“You can put ideas on and off just like moccasins. You can wear them and set them aside, hold onto those you find meaningful. Don't be afraid of learning something beyond what we're able to teach you. Even the wisest person doesn't know everything. But it's also important to preserve the ideas that make sense to you, even in the face of resistance--someone telling you that you're wrong and only they know the truth. Such boasting is evidence of a fool, perhaps a dangerous one.”
― Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls

“...in the woods stretching thick and endless, their leaves making sugar out of nothing but light.”
― Rebecca Makkai, I Have Some Questions for You

“I’ve long believed that the ones who have more joy win.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World