We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. - Barbara Kingsolver

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

I also thank Bill McKibben and his 350.org colleagues for the most important work in the world, and the most unending.

Cub retreated to the familiar grounds of remorse and insufficiency, the terms of his existence, ratified by marriage. He could construct defeat from any available material and live inside it, but for once Dellarobia didn't go there with him. she was going ahead.