💬 Quotes

"If you look at something long enough, you start to see shapes that aren't there. You start to see patterns in the static."

"We are all complicit in the things we choose to look away from, and we are doubly complicit in the things we choose to obsess over."

"Grief is a currency, and some people are very good at spending it to buy themselves a personality."

"Truth is not a fixed point. It is a messy, shifting pile of debris that we rearrange until it looks like something we can live with."

"Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing—absolutely nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."

"The Mole had long wanted to make the acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage, which indeed he was."

"It’s a funny thing about frog-footmen... they don't seem to have any sense of humour."

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

"The quietness of the woods, so hushed and expectant, gave him a sense of being in a vast, cathedral-like space that belonged to another world."

"Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before me, and a horizon that’s always changing!"

"A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his."

"He was a dog who lived with the singular belief that he was a person, a member of the family, and a participant in everything that went on."

"Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day."

"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."

"Love loves to love love."

"We are all doing together what we’re doing together."

"And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes."

"If you can’t change the world, you change yourself. And if you can’t change yourself, you change the world."

"Maybe there is no such thing as safety. Maybe it’s just a lie we tell ourselves to sleep at night."

"I am a collection of pieces, a mosaic of everything I’ve lost and everything I’ve fought to keep."