The Possession of Mr Cave Quotes

“I hope that if and when you have children you will note their differences but love them equally. I hope you know that we can create new life but never own it, and that we should never let our desire to protect become the will to possess. I hope you will know that children have achieved the whole world just by entering it, because we live and breathe its glories in every waking moment.”
― Matt Haig, The Possession of Mr. Cave: A Novel

“People say that humans are the superior species on this planet because we have minds that are conscious of their own existence, and therefore we have the capacity to create a culture, to create an art. I look at sheep, at peace on the moors, and wonder exactly how much of a delusion are our arrogant souls prepared to share?”
― Matt Haig, The Possession of Mr. Cave: A Novel

“A 'band' was 'onstage' playing 'music'.”
― Matt Haig, The Possession of Mr Cave

“A man sees beauty and he wants to possess it, in the fullest sense, or otherwise destroy it, but never simply appreciate it. And so, where there is beauty there must also be violence, to correct the balance.”
― Matt Haig, The Possession of Mr. Cave: A Novel

“Out of our mistakes, out of our pain, arrives everything we love in this world. All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence.”
― Matt Haig, The Possession of Mr. Cave: A Novel

“Cities try to shame us into action, as they know stillness is the preserve of the destitute, the dangerous, the dead.”
― Matt Haig, The Possession of Mr. Cave: A Novel

“advertising their bad diets with the most ill-advised attire.”
― Matt Haig, The Possession of Mr Cave

“You stepped out of the changing rooms, wearing a look I can only describe as Harlot Caught in a Cyclone.”
― Matt Haig, The Possession of Mr Cave

“It was a scene from before civilisation, or after it, beyond the apocalypse. A ceremony of victory, or initiation, or sacrifice.”
― Matt Haig, The Possession of Mr Cave