Life and Otter Miracles Quotes

“It occurred to her that she hadn’t really lost those years, those precious years. She had just been using them in a different way. She had been learning how to be patient and how to hang on to hope. She had developed an inner strength through her outer weakness. And now, having been held back for so long, she sensed she would spring forward, much further than she would have done if her life had been normal.”
― Hazel Prior, Life and Otter Miracles

“And amazing that you’re you and I’m me. I mean, I only exist because my parents just happened to coincide on a damp Thursday night, queuing for chips in Carmarthen. And their parents just happened to meet in some equally random way … And their parents before them. A long line of chance going back in time, hanging from threads.”
― Hazel Prior, Life and Otter Miracles

“miracles are pretty common, if you ask me. The chances of life existing at all are infinitesimal, but it somehow keeps popping up all over the place. Then there’s the fact that this planet is precisely the right distance from the sun so that we don’t frazzle or freeze.”
― Hazel Prior, Life and Otter Miracles

“Names, Phoebe realized, exerted way too much influence and altered the way everyone saw you. Even the way you saw yourself.”
― Hazel Prior, Life and Otter Miracles

“A potato! It was a thing of wonder and beauty. He rummaged further in the soil and discovered that several more were ready. Some were as tiny as pebbles, but others would make a hearty side dish. He gathered them up in a plant pot, took them to the outside tap and rinsed off the earth until their creamy flesh was revealed. They were round parcels of pure nourishment. They were living orbs. They were knobby baubles of glory. They cheered him immensely. He had achieved something.”
― Hazel Prior, Life and Otter Miracles

“she was acquainted with loss, but she forged on anyway.”
― Hazel Prior, Life and Otter Miracles

“He never treated sandwiches with respect, despite the great affection he felt towards them.”
― Hazel Prior, Life and Otter Miracles