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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
‘Enigma means that no one is sure who you really are,’ she explained. ‘Which makes you interesting, for a time at least. Then, perhaps, it becomes rather boring.’
‘Coincidence means only that there is a connection waiting to be discovered, after all.’
‘When you look at the ocean there, you can see the blue, and the swell, and the waves. But that’s only part of the story. You can’t see below the waterline, where the Titan is creating a current. To the sea life – the fish, the plants – that current is a force beyond their control, from a place they do not understand.’ Tiggy closed her eyes, as if visualising the thing she was trying to describe. ‘It’s like that up here too. All around us are energies and forces which most people don’t question or can’t comprehend. But I can see some of it.’
‘I think that our lives are like heartbeats, displayed on a monitor. They go up and down. And what does that tell you? That you are alive, my dears.’
‘If each of you had a dull and boring existence, then the monitor would not go up and down. It would be flat! And what would that mean? That you are not alive at all!’
Some of the smiles turned into giggles. ‘So you see, it is better to have this . . . excitement in your life, than for the days to pass like buses, on...
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‘Pa used to say that to experience the best moments in life, you hav...
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“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are going.”’
Life is about people, and there is no worse punishment than loneliness.
‘If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are going’ – Laozi.
‘I spent many years trying to deny love, Mr Tanit,’ she confessed to me. ‘But I have come to realise that it is a force stronger than any human being has the capacity to control.’
‘Myths are just what stories become when there is no longer a soul alive who witnessed the events first hand.’
‘Humans are bound to one another, long before they meet in the physical world.’
‘No hope is false, Atlas. Hope is a choice. Hope means hoping even when things seem hopeless. Choose to be hopeful, and amazing things can happen.’
‘I only have time for one lesson. Be kind, little one. It is the secret to happiness.’
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are going.”’
‘I lost faith in human nature long ago . . .’ ‘And I have had my own faith restored by people . . . but we were always different.’
‘Troubles, Marina?’ Atlas managed to shake his head. ‘No. Only life and humanity – the good and the bad – played out over ninety years.’
He was so warm, with an ineffable quality of . . . decency about him. It’s hard to explain.’
