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“How can I explain it? It was like there was a part of me I had forgotten existed. It was the part that fell asleep on the couch as Dad watched TV, my foot against his, the murmur of the TV in the background, my eyes beginning to fall shut, knowing that I could fall asleep if I wanted to because he would carry me to bed. It was windy outside, but he would carry me.”

“Somewhere out there, maybe there's a plant so delicious that we can't even grasp it, better than coffee or chocolate. We don't know yet! And even if we don't discover something entirely new, just the fact that you can take a seed, put it in the ground, and it becomes a plant — I can't understand how people don't think about that all the time.”

“They were all strange. They were all flawed. Together, they managed to survive. They each had something that benefited the others.”

“Imagine when we're not here,” József said. “Then there's no one seeing these trees.”

“I considered how, in the past week, I had started thinking about the animals and the trees as though they had souls. Even the insects.”