How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"Whole city shuts down, but the garden just keeps going," Leona said. She talked on, how plants don't run on electricity or clock time, how none of nature did. How nature ran on sunlight and rain and the seasons, and how I was part of that system. The words sort of put me into a daze. My body was part of nature. I was related to bears, to dinosaurs, to plants, to things that were a million years old. It hit me that this system was much older and stronger than the other. She said how it wasn't some disgrace to be part of it. She said it was an honor. I stared at the squash plants. It was a world in there. It seemed like I could actually see the leaves and flowers growing and changing. (11.8)
Wow, Leona has a super beautiful way of saying that the whole world is connected. And Maricela is pretty entranced by this idea. For most of her story, Maricela feels really disconnected from nature. But Leona's descriptions start to change all that. Plus, Leona has us remembering that nature is always developing, just like how Maricela thinks she sees the squash plant "growing and changing."