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“What are those bulb things you're slicing?" "You've never seen fennel? It looks like celery and tastes like licorice.”

— Ken Jennings

“Lucien was walking at my side. The only live things I had ever owned were lovely pricks, their roots buried in black moss. I…

— Jean Genet

“Forgive me, I have yet to introduce myself.” The Human spread his arms expansively and bowed in his chair. He made grand gestures at…

— S.G. Night

“his head burst in a blizzard of seeds that hung in the lamplight and drifted slowly to the ground like a tiny division of…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“The big rippled sheets of glass were taken out of their sacking and lowered from the back of the wagon, and for a few…

— John Banville

“They walked away from the sea, Rolandsen in the lead. He kept to the edge of the road, in the snow, to leave room…

— Knut Hamsun

“I planted a plant in the midst of spies, who were disguised as farmers.”

— Jarod Kintz

“And then they were at Tristran's old home, where his sister waited for him, and there was a steaming breakfast on the stove and…

— Neil Gaiman

“I hoisted the lid off the Spode vegetable dish and, from the depths of its hand-painted butterflies and raspberries, spooned out a generous helping…

— Alan Bradley

“Looking at these pictures, I wonder, did that part of me that flourished around him, like prized perennials under a tender gardener's care, die…

— Lisa Schroeder

“They sowed the duller vegetables first, and a pleasant feeling of righteous fatigue stole over them as they addressed themselves to the peas.”

— E.M. Forster

“He could have set fire to it, the garden was dry enough, and burned it clean—privet, vines, and weeds; but he waited in his…

— William H. Gass