A Portable Shelter Quotes

“But life is not a fairy tale. It's brighter and darker, longer and briefer, duller and more magical. It's full of contradictions, but one thing it's not is neat.”
― Kirsty Logan, A Portable Shelter

“Some people are happy with treasures and wide oceans. Some people are happy with a single stone. It doesn't matter what others want if it's not what you want.”
― Kirsty Logan, A Portable Shelter

“Our ghosts make us who we are. When we do not like our ghosts, we do not like ourselves. If no one ever died, maybe we would never learn what it meant to miss them. Maybe then we would not learn how to live a life that would be missed.”
― Kirsty Logan, A Portable Shelter

“The Cruellest things do not hide in the dark.”
― Kirsty Logan, A Portable Shelter

“It's time for a story. I know, I know, the night is noisy. Don't be afraid. The storm rises on its hind legs, bats our tiny house in its paws - but the smaller a mouse is, the more likely iy is to escape. Here, we slip through the cracks of the world.”
― Kirsty Logan, A Portable Shelter

“It's only after the fact that we trace the lines, join dots between things, skip over anything that doesn't fit. We make stories to account for everything that's happened. It's nice to think the world makes sense. It's nice to think that you make sense. But sometimes things just happen.”
― Kirsty Logan, A Portable Shelter

“I've thought and thought, but there's no other way to give you the truth except to hide it in a story and let you find your own way inside. All stories contain a truth if you look hard enough - but it might not be a good truth.”
― Kirsty Logan, A Portable Shelter

“There is really only one thing you need to know about the dead, and it's that they are dead. They can't come back to comfort us. But still they comfort us.”
― Kirsty Logan, A Portable Shelter