💬 Quotes

"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."

"Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love."

"For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion."

"Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much."

"Done to death by slanderous tongues / Was the Hero that here lies."

"Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?"

"It is not his fault that he is a little fat, and that his nose is red, and that his voice is like a trombone."

"I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year."

"The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion."

"A man may be ever so much a fool, but he is a man, and women are, more or less, his servants."