The Other Valley Quotes

“What I felt was a kind of thrilling sadness, something I have since experienced when looking out over other open spaces and lonely boundaries: an emotion that lives on the desolate edge of the known.”
― Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley

“Ambition might be like a living organism, reliant on nurture to grow. With some encouragement, mine had protruded from the dirt, a tiny shoot crawling toward the light.”
― Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley

“It’s not bad to want comfort, or respect from others. It matters more than you think.”
― Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley

“The bleakness felt welcome. At last I sat up and entered the ache of the day.”
― Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley

“Thirty-six, good god, it's practically forty. What is it with age, how sometimes a number seems normal, and other times it seems completely bizarre?
I ventured a laugh. I don't know. It feels normal to me. I guess we always have our whole lives to prepare for the age that we are.”
― Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley

“Thirty‑six, good god, it’s practically forty. What is it with age…? … It feels normal to me. I guess we always have our whole lives to prepare for the age that we are.”
― Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley

“Era così che le razionalizzazioni potevano essere smussate fino a ridursi ai fatti; che gli scrupoli potevano erodersi col tempo. Il tempo, però, era la cosa peggiore da contemplare.”
― Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley

“Non esiste quello che sarebbe dovuto accadere, ma solo quello che è accaduto: ci si adatta o niente.”
― Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley

“Era un bel nome, Edme Pira. Se lo si pronunciava ad alta voce, ogni parola terminava con le labbra aperte, come se promettesse qualcosa di più.”
― Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley