"I don't know the sensible plant," said Cat wonderingly. "Where may it be found?" "It cannot be found," the Gardener replied. "It is extinct." - Sheri S. Tepper

She had grown through loss and confusion into a girl who lived almost entirely inside her head, taking refuge in the places she created there, not so much repulsed by others’ reality as unable to perceive it.

We have a saying, “Where one lives, all live; where one suffers, all suffer.” One, in our language, includes all living things. In your language someone has said, “No man is an island,” which encompasses the concept but which, by mentioning only mankind, misses the point.

She needed more sleep and less aggravation.