💬 Quotes

"You don't get to choose who your parents are, or what kind of childhood you have. But you do get to choose who you become."

"The truth is a hard thing to hold, like a piece of ice in your hand. It slips away, or it burns you, or it melts until there's nothing left."

"Madness is just a different way of seeing the world, a version of reality that the rest of us have agreed to call wrong."

"We are all the sum of our ancestors, the living and the dead, their secrets and their sins carried in our blood like a slow-moving virus."

"Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a decision. It is the refusal to let the past dictate the terms of your future."

"The Gothic is not a historical period but a persistent, subterranean mode of imagination that arises whenever a culture’s official belief system fails to explain the world."

"We are now living in a period where the boundary between the natural and the supernatural has been completely aestheticized, turning the old ghosts into the new entertainments of digital media."

"The Gothic serves as a necessary safety valve for the modern rationalist mind, allowing us to explore the repressed, the irrational, and the monstrous without needing to fear their literal existence."

"In the contemporary era, the figure of the 'other' has shifted from the external supernatural entity to the internal technological or biological construct, creating a new kind of secularized uncanny."

"Our modern fascination with zombies, vampires, and monsters is less about a belief in spirits and more about our collective anxiety regarding the blurring lines between organic life and artificial intelligence."

"The Gothic survives because it is the literature of the threshold; it thrives in the liminal spaces where our definitions of human, divine, and mechanical collide."

"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans."

"I was learning that the life of a country vet was a life of contrasts, a constant shifting between the grim and the beautiful."

"There is no pleasure to compare with the one you get from a good day's work in the open air."

"I’m sure I’m right. I’ve never been wrong in my life, though I’ve been mistaken a few times."

"The wind was blowing across the tops, cold and keen, but I felt a strange warmth; I was a country vet, and this was my place."

"To many people, these animals are just livestock, but to the farmers I work with, they are the very fabric of their livelihood and their history."

"It is a mistake to think that the tragedy of life is that it comes to an end; the tragedy is that it is lived with such little regard for the possibilities of joy."

"I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me."

"There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her: they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit between them."