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“We’ve learned a little about a few of them, in isolation. But nothing is less isolated or more social than a tree.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Odd, Tom thought, that some girls meant sadness and death. Some girls looked like sunlight, creativity, joy, but they really meant death, and not even because the girls were enticing their victims, in fact one might blame the boys for being deceived by—nothing at all, simply imagination.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Boy Who Followed Ripley

“On the farm, this is failure's best hiding place—smack in the middle of runaway success.”
― Ted Genoways, This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm

“Misdirection. False signals. Spreading confusion. This is the Tao of deception.”
― David Ignatius, The Quantum Spy