We aren't here on earth in order to bend over backward to resemble everybody else. We're here to be ourselves, in all our gnarly brilliance.

- from Mad Honey book by Jennifer Finney Boylan and Jodi Picoult

Sometimes I think, if you're not really sad in this world, you're just not paying attention.

- from Mad Honey book by Jennifer Finney Boylan and Jodi Picoult

Beekeeping is both a burden and a privilege. You don't bother the bees unless they need your help, and you help them when they need it. It's a feudal relationship: protection in return for a percentage of the fruits of their labors.

- from Mad Honey book by Jennifer Finney Boylan and Jodi Picoult