a bunch of dreadfully common-looking flowers

“Why, why in the blue-green world write this sort of thing? Funny written culture, I guess; we pass things on.”

“The lover can see, and the knowledgeable.”

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at the Tinker Creek

 

“That it really began when the  Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much”

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things