All Over Creation Quotes

“You got a choice, dude. We've all got choices. Lots of them. Every single second of the day we're making choices. You've just been making bad ones, is all.”
― Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation

“Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.”
― Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation

“You know how good-byes feel. How the air gets excited when all its ions and electrical charges are disrupted, first by the intent to leave and later by the leaving itself. Then, when the bodies move away through space, they create empty pockets where feelings get caught and eddy around in the vacuum, creating little vortices of relief or sadness or confusion.”
― Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation

“But maybe that was the trick—to accept the responsibility and forgo the control? To love without expectation? A paradox for sure, but such a relief.”
― Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation

“But maybe that was the trick—to accept the responsibility and forgo the control? To love without expectation?”
― Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation

“Time plays tricks on mothers. It teases you with breaks and brief caesuras, only to skip wildly forward, bringing breathtaking changes to your baby's body. Only he wasn't a baby anymore, and how often did I have to learn that? The lessons were painful.”
― Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation

“Adjunct teachers are the professorial equivalent of the migrant Mexican farm laborers hired during harvest. If you can get a good contract at the same farm every year, where the farmer pays you on time and doesn't cheat or abuse you, then it's in your best interest to show up consistently from year to year.”
― Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation

“As someone who has to teach for a living, I shouldn't be saying this, but the planet can do quite well without books.”
― Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation

“When she had him along, the world looked different, and she liked the way she saw things she'd never seen before. . . But she noticed other things, too -- the way she herself felt acutely visible with the baby in her arms, and the way some people's faces lit up when they saw a child. His warm weight was like living ballast, thrumming with energy, giving her substance. Folks were drawn to that.”
― Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation

“When you’re caretaking someone who is sick or waiting to die, you get hung up in a morbid limbo, waiting for something to happen, to release you back into your life.”
― Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation

“A paradox for sure, but such a relief.”
― Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation