Dorothy 🍂🐦‍⬛🕯️

“There’s the idea of wilderness, and then there’s the unglamorous labor of it, the never-ending grind of securing firewood; bringing in groceries over absurd distances; tending the vegetable garden and maintaining the fences that keep the deer from eating all the vegetables; repairing the generator; remembering to get gas for the generator; composting; running out of water in the summertime; never having enough money because job opportunities in the wilderness are limited; managing the seething resentment of your only child, who doesn’t understand your love of the wilderness and asks every week why you can’t just live in a normal place that isn’t wilderness; etc.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

“There’s a low-level, specific pain in having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“What does it mean to be a ghost, let alone to be there, or here? There are so many ways to haunt a person, or a life—”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

“But does a person have to be either admirable or awful? Does life have to be so binary? Two things can be true at the same time, he told himself.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel