A Hundred Species of Love
She takes his shaking hand in the dark. It feels good, like a root must feel when it finds, after centuries, another root to pleach to underground. There are a hundred species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and every one of them keeps making things.
— Richard Powers, 2018
From the book The Overstory
© 2018 Richard Powers
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