Bev

“She remembered her father telling her the cows were sacred for a very practical reason. They wandered freely amongst different families for many years, providing milk for children who would otherwise have nothing. Their milk could be turned into cheese to add protein to vegetables, and their dried dung was used for housing and fuel for cooking.”
― Jane Coverdale, The Jasmine Wife

“Within our bodies disintegration inexorably advances; soon we shall fall sick and die. Our loved ones will leave us, the memory of them will dissolve in the tumult; nothing will remain. Just a few clothes in the wardrobe and someone in a photograph, no longer recognized. The most precious memories will dissipate. Everything will sink into darkness and vanish.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead