Things I Have Loved Quotes

“Quite magical how hydrangeas can change their colour depending on the soil they’re growing in.” My Mum says while she places the stems in tiny jugs. “It’s not up to them though. They must change.”
― Sophia Hembeck, Things I Have Loved : A collection (sort of)

“Looking back we were just young, so very young, we were trying to become by imitation, by surrounding ourselves with the right objects, the right artefacts, signifiers of belonging to create a future where we would have become these versions, our true selves.”
― Sophia Hembeck, Things I Have Loved : A collection (sort of)

“We all have options all the time but we’re so stuck in habitual behaviour that we miss out on them. Only afterwards there is a hint, a glimmer, that things could have been done differently. If we had only waited a second and listened to ourselves.”
― Sophia Hembeck, Things I Have Loved : A collection (sort of)