“The shefali will not bloom until it is time for the pujas.”
“The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.”
“Until you become yourself," Bloom avers, "what benefit can you be to others.”
“Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.”
“Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.”
“So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time.”