The Book of Difficult Fruit Quotes

“During my latest autoimmune flare-up—a feeling of pressurized emptiness, like a bubble is blowing itself up in my stomach, then pain, like my guts are ripping open—I exile aronia smoothies and all other fruits that can’t be peeled and seeded. Gluten, whole grains, dairy, they all have to go. I do this to calm my system but also to exhibit health-seeking behavior. So my doctors will believe in me. So my family will be patient with me. So I can say to myself I did everything I could. All I can do... My asceticism has been rewarded with stasis, not healing.”
― Kate Lebo, The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly

“shared understanding between healer and patient that the human body ends not at our skins but extends into nature; that what is in nature is also in us. It is not so much a list of prescriptions as a way of seeing and making sense of how a world that harms our bodies can also heal them.”
― Kate Lebo, The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly