Debbie

“It is clear that from an early age Vavilov was thinking about plant pathology in an evolutionary, geographic context, rather than assuming that plant diseases randomly crop up in some sort of vacuum.”
― Gary Paul Nabhan

“Shame trailed instant intimacy. Could intimacy endure once indecency was spent and our bodies had run out of tricks.
I don't know that I asked the question, just as I am not sure I am able to answer it today. Was our intimacy paid for in the wrong currency?
Or is intimacy the desired product no matter where you find it, how you acquire it, what you pay for it...”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“Cora didn't know what optimistic meant. She asked the other girls that night if they were familiar with the word. None of them had heard it before. She decided that it meant trying.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“Sometimes when you are feeling drenched by the details of your own life, it's time to pack a suitcase for your myopia and sent it on holiday.
Look up. There is so infinity much more matter than you out there, hurling forth glowing plumes, imploding into vortexes, converging into gaseous balls, then shattering into incandescent rain. It is endless and eternal and entropic and generative and holy in the most religion-irrelevant sense of the word.”
― Annie Raser-Rowland, The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide to Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More