"The love of stone is often unrequited."
—Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

"All objects are stubborn; being inert, they resist our attempts to '(in)form' them. Yet every object is stubborn in its own particular way: Stones shatter when chiseled; cotton slackens when stretched; written language deforms thoughts with the stringency of its rules."
—Vampyroteuthis Infernalis, Vilém Flusser