The first thing of beauty was an origami bird so delicate and fine that when Srilal lifted it on the palm of his hand, he thought it might fly away.

Marcela uses her art as an escape from life's realities by twisting them into her own realities.

"I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes."

wherever I travel / on Earth or beyond, / the forest stains / my life and thought.