Jill Mackin

“According to an old sailing proverb, below latitude 40° south there is no law, and below 50° south, no God.”
― Ian Urbina, The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

“This fantasy that it is possible to fish sustainably, legally, and using workers with contracts, making a living wage, and still deliver a five-ounce can of skipjack tuna for $2.50 that ends up on the grocery shelf only days after the fish was pulled from the water thousands of mi,es away. Prices that low and efficiencies that tight come with hidden costs, and it is the manning agencies that help in the hiding.”
― Ian Urbina, The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

“She should be standing before the stove in her new robe, full of simple, encouraging talk. Still, when she opened her eyes a few minutes ago (after seven already!)—when she still half inhabited her dream, some sort of pulsating machinery in the remote distance, a steady pounding like a gigantic mechanical heart, which seemed to be drawing nearer—she felt the dank sensation around her, the nowhere feeling, and knew it was going to be a difficult day. She knew she was going to have trouble believing in herself,”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“My father used to say the world turned wrong when we started separating ourselves from the wild, when we stopped being one with the rest of nature, and sat apart.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves