“Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.”

“My ass was grass, and big brother was the lawn mower.”

“The grass may be greener on the other side, but you still have to move the lawn.”

“Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.”

“... the Chinese have become very good at coming up with puns, alternative words, and memes. For example, they talk about the battle between the grass-mud horse and the river crab. The grass-mud horse, caonima, is the phonogram for "mother-fucker" - what the netizens call themselves. The river crab, hexie, is the phonogram for "harmonisation" or "censorship". So you have a battle between the caonima and the hexie. When big political stories happen, you find netizens discussing them using such weird phrases and words that you can't understand them even if you have a PhD in Chinese.”

“Lusia’s face was red and blotchy. She stared ahead, numb, absentmindedly pulling the grass from the lawn.”