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“He had enough troubles, he thought, without inventing new ones for the future. He was middling lost, starving, and with an excellent chance of…

— George Alec Effinger

“Like the trees, his roots went deep, and I daydreamed that if he wrapped me in his arms, he could safely tuck me away…

— Colleen Houck

“Monet was a radical before he was a calendar.”

— Anne Jamison

“Shamus shrugged. “It’s all about energy exchange. It could always go the other way, me feeding a plant instead of drawing the life out…

— Devon Monk

“But something he'd come to realize on the roof, leaning out, thinking about what would happen if he leaned too far, was that a…

— Katherine Boo

“Every one follows his own bent. Man is like a tree. You’ve never quarrelled with a fig tree because it doesn’t bear cherries, have…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“If everybody would leave him alone for just a little while, he thought, he wouldn't cause anybody any more trouble. He would turn to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“He had no thought og how it was before he came to the farm. His memory of those times was like a house where…

— Truman Capote

“I felt rippling wheat field and crows circling within me. I was a vase of sunflowers ready to spit seeds like weapons at the…

— Jodi Baker

“Soon he had a glowing, stinking lasso of poisonous weeds. Hooray.”

— Rick Riordan

“I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make…

— Jon Krakauer

“All there was to it, he was in a panic. He was scared stiff that any minute a fact might come bouncing in that…

— Rex Stout