The Flock Quotes

“But it’s a good thing most mothers are women;”
― J. Todd Scott, The Flock

“Regret and sorrow, pain and loss, are just part of the deal, the price, for all the joy and beauty and love we do experience.”
― J. Todd Scott, The Flock

“We’re pattern-seeking creatures. There’s even a word for it: apophenia. We constantly make connections between completely unrelated things, tease meaningful patterns from meaningless noise, and find familiar objects in the world around us. We see the man in the moon, or climbing kudzu looks like a crucified man, or a blackish stain on a hardwood floor stares right back at us. Birds make smiling faces in the New Mexico sky. The world is a mirror, and our tendency to see ourselves in it was once a matter of survival. As soon as a baby can see, she recognizes the human face. The baby smiles at the sight, and her mother picks her up, holds her tight, loves her, protects her. See . . . survival.”
― J. Todd Scott, The Flock

“We all want signs, want the world to make sense and mean something. But then again, we can find meaning in almost anything, if we look hard enough . . .”
― J. Todd Scott, The Flock

“there are parts of you that run so deep they root you in place no matter how fast or far away you try to fly.”
― J. Todd Scott, The Flock