Elsa Buehler

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

“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

“She takes his shaking hand in the dark. It feels good, like a root must feel, when it finds, after centuries, another root to pleach to underground. There are a hundred thousand species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and every one of them keeps making things.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“These people are nothing to Plant-Patty. And yet their lives have long been connected, deep underground. Their kinship will work like an unfolding book. The past always comes clearer, in the future.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory