Everything the Light Touches Quotes

“to anticipate is to feel alive”
― Janice Pariat, Everything the Light Touches

“I’m a white dwarf, I tell myself. A dead star. Exhausted of everything life-giving, heavy not just with the weight of the past, but also the sense that nothing lies beyond, no further evolution. I’m lost and hollow. What to stand in the sun for now? Nothing, I tell myself gloomily.”
― Janice Pariat, Everything the Light Touches

“viburnum. “A plant is language. Yet all we wish to do is make it speak our own.”
― Janice Pariat, Everything the Light Touches: An Award-Winning Epic of Four Lives Through Botanical Discovery and India's Sacred Forests

“In preparation, it is important to first acknowledge who we are," began Ollie. "Our daily likes and dislikes, our personal history and the impressions that ordinary encounters with the natural world create in ourselves as observers." This is also when the observer chooses what to study perhaps when one is struck by something; Goethe called it being spoken to" by the thing.”
― Janice Pariat, Everything the Light Touches