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“Agriculture turned us into prisoners. We never wanted to grow crops and live in houses. We were nomads for millions of years.” (The Light Through the Leaves Quotes)
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
“Cold camping with a lover was the best. Snuggling under warm blankets while the snow fell outside. The soft walls and warm interior felt like a tiny world born of their two bodies. To make love in a tent in winter felt deliciously primal.”
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
“Ellis wasn’t like regular people. She was unsociable and peculiar, not the kind of person anyone wanted to stick with.”
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
“Hatred was an addictive emotion, and it thrived best with frequent injections that kept the high going.”
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
“I left my baby in the woods. I know the regret of leaving a child behind very well. I feel the agony of it in every moment.”
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
“I’m begging you to be who you truly are with our children. If you can do that, I know they’ll grow into good men.”
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
“I’ve seen how that goes, and so have you. All the fighting over the kids. The new partners of the divorced couple getting involved. The kids confused by their loyalties. Kids shouldn’t be consigned to Hell because their parents made mistakes.”
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
“Inside we’re still a nomadic species. All people feel it, but most of them don’t know what’s making them want something that’s always out of reach. They buy fancier cars and bigger houses, but it never makes them feel better. They just keep getting more depressed until they die.”
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
“It always did what it wanted. Fate didn’t give a damn how good a person was, or how innocent a baby, before it swept them away.”
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
“Kids in high school thought a lot about sex. And talked a lot about it. And smirked and joked about it. And speculated about who was doing it with whom.”
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
“Love couldn’t be removed like a thorn from a thumb.”
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
“Mama was right about the creature joy of sex. It was like lapping icy water straight from a Montana mountain stream when she was thirsty. It was a kind of satiation in the most beautiful of ways.”
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
“People change, Dani. I don’t intend this to be mean, but you don’t really know me now. And I don’t know you. I’ve been married, a mother of three, and divorced all while you’ve been in grad school.”
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
“People who love each other can stay together in other ways. In their hearts.”
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
“That made it better, really, because you could say any secret thing you wouldn’t say to someone who was listening. That was all that mattered, getting some of the words out before they piled too full inside you.”
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
“That’s your genetic memories making you see, hear, smell, touch, and long for how we lived for hundreds of generations. Inside we’re still a nomadic species. All people feel it, but most of them don’t know what’s making them want something that’s always out of reach. They buy fancier cars and bigger houses, but it never makes them feel better. They just keep getting more depressed until they die.”
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
“The pain of existence was not something a person should have to feel.”
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
“This grass is making food for itself from sunlight. And that food feeds many creatures. I believe photosynthesis is a kind of miracle.”
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
“To my baby sister, who’s once again tossed us into a stormy sea. May we find our way back to shore.”
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
“Who could know their future with a person they cared about? And even if they did somehow find out something bad was going to happen with that person, would they give up on them? Let them suffer alone? Love couldn’t be removed like a thorn from a thumb.”
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
“Women got the short end of the evolutionary stick when it comes to body strength. In most cases, a man can physically dominate a woman. And the anatomy of human genitalia makes the disadvantage even worse.”
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
“You are my treasure. I will watch over you in this life and also in the next.”
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
“You will have my spirit with you always, dear one. You need only look at the beauty of the earth, and I’ll be there.”
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
“You’re my brother, and you’re my friend. You can be as contrarian and mean to me as you want, but I’m still going to care.”
Glendy Vanderah
The Light Through the Leaves
