How It Feels to Float Quotes

“It’s a beautiful thing, Elizabeth, isn’t it? To love this much?”
― Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

“They say observation affects reality, that it can pin an electron into place. Until then, the electron is just a possibility, just an idea. Until it’s seen, it might as well not exist.”
― Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

“And when asper and I hug, hard, and he spins me around and doesn't let go, the twins leap and scream and Mum can't help but laugh because she knows. How it is. To be in this place, under this sun, for as long as you can be, for as long as you can get. For as long as you can stay to see what might happen next.”
― Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

“What did you expect, someone mappable? He's a mystery and not a mystery, like the two sides of a coin or a heart or the sea.”
― Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

“The sky grinds overhead. I can hear the clouds clacking. I can hear the movement of the secret stars, the ones you never see because it's day.”
― Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

“Before I came to this school, I was never in a group, so being in one- especially one with a name- was quite the novelty. It still is, because, I mean, I belong to six other people and they say they miss me when I'm not there. I've sat on the bench under the tree by the fence for just over two years now, laughing and saying things I think I'm supposed to. And almost every second of every minute I'm with them, I feel like I'm seeing the scene from somewhere else. In front of a screen maybe, watching someone else's life.”
― Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

“It’s so easy, isn’t it? For everything to change. On/off. Love/hate. Alive/dead.”
― Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

“I haven't said how slippery things can seem.”
― Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

“Life is terrible and beautiful isn’t it? It’s the best/worst at the exact same time, all possibilities at once.
I guess it’s whatever it is when you observe it. And a second later, it’s something else.
Now it's something else again.
Now it's something else.”
― Helena Fox, Lo que se siente al flotar / How It Feels to Float