His Dark Materials: The Complete Collection: now a major BBC TV series
The words had spoken again and again of the glorious moment of truth that would come when the Space Wanderer came.
Kurt Vonnegut • The Sirens of Titan
Our relation to ideas is an inextricable symbiosis, like that between plant and pollinator, a mutualism in which neither can survive without the other. At the dawn of civilization, a covenant was made between humans and these alien entities that live in our minds—honor and respect each other and all will flourish beyond their wildest dreams.
Roger's Bacon • Ideas are Alive and You are Dead
The notes floated with the fog, dissipating into the darker reaches of the lowland forests, and seemed somehow to be absorbed and memorized by the marsh because whenever Kya passed those channels again, she heard his music.
Delia Owens • Where the Crawdads Sing
Maggie began to show her the way in which the world was webbed; how nothing lived in isolation.