Ashley McMullen

“there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Animals are complete all their own, living voices we don't get to hear, having a knowing far beyond our paltry ken.”
― Lynda Rutledge, West with Giraffes

“Benevolent colonialism is still colonialism.”
― Xóchitl González, Olga Dies Dreaming

“I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death... is the true measure of the Divine within us. ... I used to wonder, why did God give children leprosy? Now I believe: God doesn't give anyone leprosy. He gives us, if we choose to use it, the spirit to live with leprosy, and with the imminence of death. Because it is in our own mortality that we are most Divine.”
― Alan Brennert, Moloka'i