The Six Quotes

“HUMAN MINDS ARE LIKE DANDELIONS GROWING in dark rooms. Thoughts lose their colour. Minds go to seed. And once they go to seed, there is no wind in the dark rooms to shake their deepest, darkest thoughts free. Only when they shake their withered thoughts free can they seed the new. That is what I have been taught.”
― Anni Taylor, The Six

“The stories made me somehow feel better and made me feel that my own life wasn’t out of control.”
― Anni Taylor, The Six

“She’d tell me that she was going to walk away until I remembered that she was my wife.”
― Anni Taylor, The Six

“These relics of an ancient world were all so other in contrast to the world I inhabited.”
― Anni Taylor, The Six

“could remember what it was like to be four, thinking that the adults were in control. When you became an adult yourself, it became scarily apparent how not-in-control the adults actually were.”
― Anni Taylor, The Six

“No, poker would take me some place I didn’t want to be.”
― Anni Taylor, The Six

“Spinoza said that we dream with our eyes open. We trick ourselves into believing we have free will, but free will is an illusion.”
― Anni Taylor, The Six

“Otto and I were addicted to each other, and she was right. We’d each injected ourselves into the other’s bloodstream.”
― Anni Taylor, The Six

“Happy stories are the things we tell to make ourselves feel better. But they are never true.”
― Anni Taylor, The Six

“The concept of normal is a strange thing. If a person is persuasive enough, they can tip you on your head and make you believe that your new view of the world is normal.”
― Anni Taylor, The Six