The Grassling Quotes

“I am plant as well as animal. My blood transports oxygen; my chlorophyll produces it. Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus surge along tissue, torso, culm to my blades. Blood blends magnesium as well as iron. I am grass made flesh. Grassling.”
― Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, The Grassling

“I run on a thousand chandeliers, as each blade sparkles with frost; a river of glass underfoot. It is as though the elements are reversed: sky is ground and ground is sky, and I am running on the pinheads of constellations, leaping from star to frosted star.”
― Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, The Grassling

“If it wants to listen to the trees, it is best to be in them, it reminds itself, not out in the open fringes.”
― Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, The Grassling