" It started when I met you in the rain forest. When I almost stepped on the cycad and the gloxinia, but you stopped me just in time."
"That's when I made you go back and get the moonflower."
"The umbilical cord, you called it."
"We walked to Casablanca through the jungle."
"And then alongside the ocean."
"I liked you already."
"I liked you, too. You introduced me to Tamatz Kauyumari. The oldest and biggest deer."
"I sang you his spirit song."
"And then he led us to Theobroma cacao."
"I saw Panthera onca following you through the jungle, twice."
"I never should have gone to the market without you, but you were sleeping."
"That's where you met the Cashier."
"And found the mandrake. And cichorium intybus. The plant of invisibility. "

― Margot Berwin , Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire