Kristen Doerr

“But we make a grave error if we try to separate individual well-being from the health of the whole.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“Mom is polite and well mannered because she comes from Minnesota, where they value tablecloths and porcelain.”
― Cory Richards, The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within

“going.”
― Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

“She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it’s there, because it can’t hurt, and because what difference does it make?”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon