Karen Kay

“Thatcher thought Mary was not invisible, but as free as any woman could be. And in the grip of fresh discoveries, always.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered

“My murderer has deprived me of very little. There are the years I will not live, but set against the vastness of eternity, the time I’ve lost is but a moment. What is forever is the same as if I’d lived another sixty years or more: those I loved will always be a part of me, and I will never cease being a part of those who loved me. I did not want to speak”
― Adam Mitzner, Dead Certain

“I am going to live for the color of grass. I am going to keep living because of that”
― Karen Piper, A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America's Secret Desert

“This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory