Amber

“The world is violent and mercurial--it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love--love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.”
― Tennessee Williams

“Trees stand at the heart of ecology, and they must come to stand at the heart of human politics.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“It's just a bow and arrow, but it's not a laughing matter. It might have been at one time, but history takes the laugh out of many things. If the arrow is a joke, so is the atom bomb, so is the sweep of disease laden dust that wipes out whole cities, so is the screaming rocket that arcs and falls then thousand miles away and kills a million people.”
― Clifford D. Simak

“I guess he's used to suspicious people with crappy tempers. Or maybe I've never seemed as normal as I thought.”
― Holly Black, White Cat