Kausambhi

“You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful, and then you actually talk to them, and five minutes later they're dull as a brick. But then there's other people, and you meet them and you think 'not bad, they're okay', and then you get to know them, and their face sort of becomes them, like their personality's written all over it, and they just they turn into something so beautiful...”
― Amy Pond Doctor Who series

“A partridge settled at the base of a holm oak. It was garden out of time, a garden against time, continually occupying the present tense, insinuating itself into the future by way of each new visitor, I understood how it worked now, how gardens self-seed.”
― Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

“Shame had entered the garden, making him more painfully estranged from his own body”
― Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise