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I didn't expect a methodologies book to make me cry, but here we are

“Community, then, is not uniform, never a single story, but an evolving, shifting expression of diverse and changing patterns of coexistence in a place […] Through these relationships, we can strive toward a vision of a shared inhabiting. We hold the maple seed in our hand, and we imagine a tree”

“Like the Sufis say, we can point to the moon, we can even wade into its reflection in the water, but we can never touch it. There is still worth in the seeking. There are truths to be met in the work of building bridges”

“To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.”

“It hurts to know this; I could be a happier American if I didn't have a loved one sending me truth from the trenches.
You're right, we're a nation of amnesiacs. I'm embarrassed. It's an inappropriately weak emotion. You risk everything, while I pay my taxes like everybody else and try not to recall the unpleasant odor of death.”

“Her breath expanded her chest against my arms, and I thought of the way a tree will keep on growing after a fence is wired around its trunk. The unbelievable force of that expansion.
And I let her go.”

“Margaret is reminded of the way she felt when she first met Ian: as if life had slipped tree of its netting. As if the netting itself had all along been an illusion, nothing real. An idea, which could not contain or describe the borderless all-enveloping reality of life.“

shuuggie bain meets a little life

“It is necessary to invent sovereign forms of life faced with the double helix of the patriarchal State and the liberal market. It is necessary to create cooperatives of politicized users, cooperatives that would allow us to win sovereignty to confront pathologizing institutions as well as the pharmaceutical industry and its ambitions for genocidal profit”

“Humans, those masked incarnations of the forest, should unmask themselves of the human and mask themselves again with the knowledge of the bees”

my thesis is my life now

“anything can run out of anything. a thought can run out of words.
The last thing you need is to judge your own heart, but then that’s the first thing you go and do. A heart rushes to judge itself. A heart should have better things to do. A heart doesn’t.”

my only real reading goal of the year is to finish this mammoth of a book

this is not a flex but a cry for help

“i want to be the one in control of my body, even if that means denying it”

“The rare joy, as an adult, of having liked people and lived among them in unconditional friendship. The joy of existing together in that time, a time that could neither last not be repeated. Their tears grieved for a time devoid of loneliness.”

it was not all going to be climate dystopia and sad women, i need some comfort reading