Lillsa

“A seed that lands upside down in the ground will wheel --root and stem--in a great U-turn until it rights itself. But a human child can know it's pointed wrong and still consider the direction well worth a try.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Puns are the highest form of literature.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“...your father is in town trying the telegraph office, though I assured him that'll be as profitable as trying to pick feathers out of molasses.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“You can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamn contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbrush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail, you'll see something, maybe.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire