The Trees Witness Everything Quotes

“Passage

Every leaf that falls
never stops falling. I once
thought that leaves were leaves.
Now I think they are feeling,
in search of a place—
someone's hair, a park bench, a
finger. Isn't that
like us, going from place to
place, looking to be alive?”
― Victoria Chang, The Trees Witness Everything

“There is a bird and a stone in your body. Your job is to not kill the bird with the stone.”
― Victoria Chang, The Trees Witness Everything

“They are not wisdom
or freedom or history.
They are not what’s lost.
They are nothing but wild geese.
I can hear them everywhere,
wings pushing down metaphor.”
― Victoria Chang, The Trees Witness Everything

“WHAT CAN WE CALL IT You can’t stop someone from adding an s to a word. Loves. Depressions. Deaths. Griefs. Gods. Most of the time, the plural of something is worse.”
― Victoria Chang, The Trees Witness Everything

“THE THREAD Once I thought the thread was God so I’ve held the string like a leash, thinking that one day it would pull me toward light. But what if it’s just a string, all the seasons just dresses, things to put on and take off.”
― Victoria Chang, The Trees Witness Everything