“there is moss on the wallsand the stain of thought and failure andwaiting”
“I was stained by failure.”
“The goodness of the world grew like moss in cracks, she thought. It grew, somehow, with hidden roots, nourished by something unseen.”
“moss that is concentrating on being green.”
“A rolling stone gathers no moss.”
“There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought”