Bea Goode-Parson

“For one who grew to manhood believing himself to be an orphan," Eleanor said, "you are surprisingly familiar with the weeds found in family gardens."
[...]
"All I know of family gardens, my lady, I learned by looking over fences.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, Cruel as the Grave

“Thanks heavens we have an earth! Otherwise, where would we sit?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

“In every way mosses could seem plain, dull, modest, even primitive. The simplest weed sprouting from the humblest city sidewalk appeared infinitely more sophisticated by comparison. But here is what few people understood, and what Alma came to learn: Moss is inconceivably strong.
[...] Moss grows where nothing else can grow. [...] Moss has the temerity to begin luring the forest back to life. It is a resurrection engine.
[...] The only thing mosses need is time, and it was beginning to appear to Alma that the world had plenty of time to offer.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

“Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. [...] The torch spit sparks and sent chunks of flaming tar spinning into the air behind her as she bolted across the cosmos—the only body in the heavens who was not held to a strict elliptical path.
Nobody stopped her.
She was a comet.
She did not know that she was not flying.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things