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H is for Hawk

by Helen Macdonald

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"She is so enamoured with the hawk, human company becomes almost intolerable. She is becoming part of the hawks personality as a way of overcoming her grief." — Mar 07, 2026 05:07AM

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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“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

tags: birth, childhood, family, love, motherhood, pregnancy, vocation

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