“Like special fungus, your love will grow in strange places”

“True friendship is as rare as twin lotuses on a single stalk.”

“Fate will come looking for you. Don't bother hiding”

“I read once about a kind of fungus that grows in trees. The fungus begins to encroach on the systems that carry water and nutrients up from the roots to the branches. It disables them one by one―it crowds them out. Soon, the fungus―and only the fungus―is carrying the water, and the chemicals, and everything else the tree needs to survive. At the same time it is decaying the tree slowly from within, turning it minute by minute to rot.That is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.It is hard and deep and angular, a system of blockades. It is everything and total.”

“This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.”

“Sometimes I feel like she deserves a best friend who is just a little more special.”

“Yes, the world was very strange. But you had to walk through. That was the trick. You had to keep walking through, always, with your chin held high, the way she had passed through the tunnels of the underworld, with only the dim light of the lumpen to guide her. That was the other trick, the other truth: Light would come to you from unexpected places.”