Jerica Lobe

“The question is, does the educated citizen know he is only a cog in an ecological mechanism? That if he will work with that mechanism his mental wealth and his material wealth can expand indefinitely? But that if he refuses to work with it, it will ultimately grind him to dust? If education does not teach us these things, then what is education for?”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac; with essays on conservation from Round River

“People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.”
― Dorothy Allison

“I want somebody to love, and I want somebody to love me. And nobody ever will. And that's why it hurts. Because it makes a difference. And when nobody cares, it makes you all mad inside and it makes you want to say things, tear up things, break things, get through the glass.”
― Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

“A lot of life, Michael had learned, came down to trying to fix things that weren’t fixable.”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors