Sindi Kaplan

“first, like a hornet’s nest, it’s no more than a fleck of mud in a wooden joist. But it grows, and portholes appear, and soon a steady drone can be heard within.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“Poor conversation, or even its lack, murders the finer machinations of the mind,”
― Nathaniel Ian Miller, The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven