The Things We Don't See Quotes

“I wonder if that is something that comes with age - a desire for self-betterment, to change the parts of myself that are largely undesirable. For now, I'm enjoying them. Not enjoying, maybe. I understand them. They get me what I want.

A stem without thorns is lesser. A stem without thorns gets eaten.”
― Savannah Brown, The Things We Don't See

“Narrator: "The year is 1986, and if my demographics are anything to go by, you're not there.”
― Savannah Brown, The Things We Don't See

“Turns out there's nothing easier than lying.”
― Savannah Brown, The Things We Don't See

“After one is hollowed out by suffering, one might expect something to rush in to fill the new, unoccupied parts of yourself - but that's not how it's been for me. Nothing rushed in. Instead, I sometimes look in the mirror and see not a different person, but no one at all. Not a canvas, a canvas has potentiality, a promise, an ability. Just nothing. I'm no one.”
― Savannah Brown, The Things We Don't See

“After one is hollowed out by suffering, one might expect something to rush in to fill the new, unoccupied parts of yourself - but that's not how it's been for me. Nothing rushed in. Instead, I sometimes look in the mirror and see not a different person, but no one at all. Not a canvas, a canvas has potentiality, a promise, an ability. Just nothing.”
― Savannah Brown, The Things We Don't See