Kate > Kate's Quotes

“We often find ourselves wishing for more hours in the day, but that wouldn't help anything. The problem, clearly, isn't that we have a shortage of time. It's more that we have an overload of everything else.”
― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

“It is no accident, Ma, that the comma resembles a fetus— that curve of continuation. We were all once inside our mothers, saying with our entire curved and silenced selves, more, more, more. I want to insist that are being alive is beautiful enough to be worthy of replication. And so what? So what if all I ever made of my life was more of it?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Because who can look at man’s neurotic assault on the planet and find it beautiful? Man’s hubris. A hubris so almighty it’s matched only by his stupidity.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“Surprising things (edited)
The imagination
The dinosaurs
A blue pen with a red lid
Green clouds
Children in bow ties”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“It wants what it wants. Hopes what it hopes. Needs what it needs loves what it loves.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“Our lives here are inexpressibly trivial and momentous at once, it seems he’s about to wake up and say. Both repetitive and unprecedented. We matter greatly and not at all. To reach some pinnacle of human achievement only to discover that your achievements are next to nothing and that to understand this is the greatest achievement of any life, which itself is nothing, and also much more than everything. Some metal separates us from the void; death is so close. Life is everywhere, everywhere.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“But there are no new thoughts. They’re just old thoughts born into new moments – and in these moments is the thought: without that earth we are all finished. We couldn’t survive a second without its grace, we are sailors on a ship on a deep, dark unswimmable sea.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“Hour of the day when different lives overlap unlikely stories interact early risers and late nightclubbers people with little in common cross paths”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

“I like otters. Says Zaleekhah. They link paws so they don’t drift away from each other. Thats how they survive.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

“If you say pavalova I’m going to fucking kill myself(!) - Dan from. Our wives under the Sea”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea