Elsa Buehler

“I tell him, people very stupid. They forget everything—where they come from, where they go. I say: Don't worry. Human being leaving this world, very soon. Then the bear get top bunk to himself again.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one, and to mistake life for something huge with two legs. No: life is mobilized on a vastly larger scale, and the world is failing precisely because no novel can make the contest for the world seem as compelling as the struggles between a few lost people.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Soon his eyes close on their own accord, and he's swept back into sleep, that nightly place of plantlike deliverance.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“A bit of shape and form has disappeared from the world, increasing the amount of nothingness.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore