“I was a really lonely kid. The advantage to being unpopular is you get a lot more reading done.”
― Hell Bent
― Hell Bent
“She read paperbacks too, one after the next like she was chain-smoking—romance, science fiction, old pulp fantasy. All she wanted to do was sit, unbothered in a circle of lamplight, and live someone else’s life.”
― Hell Bent
― Hell Bent
“That was the problem with love. It was hard to unlearn, no matter how harsh the lesson.”
― Hell Bent
― Hell Bent
“Even now, with the natural world in so
much trouble—even now, with the patterns of my daily life changing in ways I don’t always welcome or understand—radiant things are bursting forth in the darkest places, in the smallest nooks and deepest cracks of the hidden world. I mean to keep looking every single day until I find them.the”
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
much trouble—even now, with the patterns of my daily life changing in ways I don’t always welcome or understand—radiant things are bursting forth in the darkest places, in the smallest nooks and deepest cracks of the hidden world. I mean to keep looking every single day until I find them.the”
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
“I’m not trying to hide from the truth but to balance it, to remind myself that there are other truths, too. I need to remember that the earth, fragile as it is, remains heartbreakingly beautiful. I need to give my attention to a realm that is indifferent to fretful human mutterings and naked human anger, a world unaware of the hatred
and distrust taking over the news.”
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
and distrust taking over the news.”
― The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
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