Arrow Lake so only one life can't be enough

"Poet and a romantic - how charming," Sarah drawled, the semi-sarcastic note in her voice iced with a bit of humor. Mahler could have chosen a dandelion and she would not have objected. She was the most a-botanical person in the world. I her books the taxonomy was simple - there was grass and the rest of the plants. 

"Why not be a rock instead?" she asked. "They are tough and they are strong under specific circumstances. Or your vanity could not stand being something gray and insignificant to the rest of the world until one jams a foot in you and mutters a curse?"