" Moss grows without roots. His words took my breath away. Throughout a lifetime studying the biology of plants, this simple fact had eluded me, and it seemed now to be the one fact I needed, desperately, to have known.

"What's her name?" I asked.

"Hazel." Reconciliation. Grant pulled at a stubborn root of crabgrass, avoiding my eyes. "I thought, someday, she'd bring you back to me. "

― Vanessa Diffenbaugh , The Language of Flowers