Maria Cresto

“Then one by one they raised their faces to the sky. 'Like a field of sunflowers'.”
― Fiona Valpy, The Beekeeper's Promise

“Watching the sea never ceased to ground me. It was unchangeable. It was constant. Whatever happened - whatever seasons came and went, whatever way the wind blew, whatever was going on in the world, whatever was going on in the lives of the people who walked along the shores - the waves always just did what they did best. They came and went.”
― Claire Allan, Her Name Was Rose

“And I feel my heart beginning to unfurl and to reach outwards into the world again, like the delicate tendrils of a plant at the end of a long, long, spell of drought.”
― Fiona Valpy, The Beekeeper's Promise

“Why not? We can't see gravity, and it has a strong effect on us.”
― Glendy Vanderah, Where the Forest Meets the Stars