Shalini

“Who’s infecting whom? We know from our hoarse Trojans, in my time. Will you respond, establishing complicity, continuing our self-destructive paper trail, just to get in the last word? Will you cut off, leaving my note to spin its fractal math inside you?”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“But then I'll be just like a snail stuck in my shell my whole life. Apologies to snails, but I don't want to be like that!”
― Eiko Kadono, Kiki's Delivery Service

“It was hard to find a Pangan who hadn’t, at least once, spent a very necessary hour or two in the company of a tea monk.”
― Becky Chambers

“More divine a man or a work of man is, the more it resembles a plant”
― Friedrich Schlegel, Lucinde and the Fragments