The Fallen Stones Quotes

“Maybe they were eye-catching reminders that, yes, there are powerful dark forces and heart-wrenching loss, but there is also beauty and color. There is life. So, screw it, don’t keep your head down. Soak in any warmth you can find, and then fly.”
― Diana Marcum, The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way

“When liars and cheats in power put everything—people’s trust, their livelihoods, even the fate of the planet—at risk, it’s up to regular people to team up and save the day.”
― Diana Marcum, The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way

“monogamy wasn’t about staying in love with the same person but falling in and out of love with the same person many times over.”
― Diana Marcum, The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way

“Alli’s Gin-Gins Half lime squeezed (Jamaican lime is my fav) 2 oz. (2.5 oz. for me) dry gin—Tanqueray preferred Ice to chill the gin Top with ginger ale (my fav is ginger beer for an added punch) Splash of grenadine to make it pretty”
― Diana Marcum, The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way

“force for good in a morally ambiguous world.” Source: anonymous,”
― Diana Marcum, The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way

“repeatedly in their life. Mine is: “Ice cream is a force for good in a morally ambiguous world.” Source: anonymous, spotted in a Ben & Jerry’s store circa 1993.”
― Diana Marcum, The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way

“he wanted Fallen Stones to be there for their children and their children’s children. “Do you think the world will last that long?” I asked, giving away my anxieties. “Much longer,” said Sebastian. “The decision we must make is: What kind of world?”
― Diana Marcum, The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way

“When you don’t know what to do—do the thing in front of you,” she had said.”
― Diana Marcum, The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way

“Architects have been studying the blue morpho wing structure hoping that structure might hold the key to an energy-efficient system of cooling buildings, or maybe entire cities”
― Diana Marcum, The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way

“Back then, we were both daughters of poverty who were bound and determined to live some other kind of sparkly life. We”
― Diana Marcum, The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way

“called her one Saturday morning with a cooking question, and she was on her way to a protest in downtown Fresno. She has had breast cancer and heart problems. I was worried that it wasn’t safe for her to be in a crowd in a pandemic. She told me that racism was deadlier.”
― Diana Marcum, The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way

“When it comes down to it, there is no staying anything in life. It’s all transitions.”
― Diana Marcum, The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way

“I envy those tempestuous types who battle it out. The conflicts of the mutually emotionally contained are sneaky and draining.”
― Diana Marcum, The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way

“It was important to remember all interpretations are based on previous experiences.”
― Diana Marcum, The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way

“Clive, who was leading my tour, said butterflies tended to provoke strong reactions in people. Toddlers laughed and chased them, even if they had just been crying over an empty juice box. He said it wasn’t unusual to see an adult, sitting silent and alone, letting butterflies light on them as tears slid down their face.”
― Diana Marcum, The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way

“I attended a wedding once where the officiant said that monogamy wasn’t about staying in love with the same person but falling in and out of love with the same person many times over. At the time, I’d felt sorry for his wife, who was standing next to me. Now, I think he may have been onto something.”
― Diana Marcum, The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way