Bea Goode-Parson

“[T]his is a difference of our minds, dearest one. I wish to arrive at revelation on wings, while you arrive steadily on foot, magnifying glass in hand. I am a smattering wanderer, seeking God within the outer contours, searching for a new way of knowing. You stand upon the ground, and consider the evidence inch by inch. Your way is more rational and more methodical, but I cannot change my way.”
― 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

“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."
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"All I know of family gardens, my lady, I learned by looking over fences.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, Cruel as the Grave

“Oak and iron, guard me well, or else I'm dead, and doomed to hell.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms