Fruiting Bodies Quotes

“I have always known that I am getting better when things that are beautiful start to feel relevant to me again.”
― Kathryn Harlan, Fruiting Bodies: Stories

“You're not sure it's ethically possible to justify having children right now, the weather is changing and the inhabitable land is shrinking, Congress has passed a bill that deregulates something, though you've already forgotten what and just how bad it is. Sometimes when you try to think about the future you have panic attacks. Is it fair to give a child what the world has left?”
― Kathryn Harlan, Fruiting Bodies: Stories

“The only way to really love someone is to know them. Even more so, Esther thinks, that is what love can be broken down to. That is what intimacy is. With enough love you could conjure someone perfectly in a room they are not in.”
― Kathryn Harlan, Fruiting Bodies: Stories

“One way or another, you were wrung out; like someone had broken your bones open and scraped out all the marrow.”
― Kathryn Harlan, Fruiting Bodies: Stories