Emotional Insight Quotes

“Conditional love shapes us quietly, long before we even realize it.”
― The Universal Heart Observer, In the Spaces We Don't Talk About: A Companion For the Upspoken Truth We Carry

“They say that only humans can contemplate death. Cats don’t fear it the same way that we do. It doesn’t cause them the same level of anxiety that it does us humans. And then, despite our angst over mortality, we end up keeping cats as pets, even though we know that they will die long before we do, causing the owner immense grief.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“When men feel small they are dangerous.”
― Nina MacLaughlin, Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung

“A new place doesn’t just shift the view, it shifts the heart. In unfamiliar skies, we often see each other more clearly as if for the first time.”
― Pamela Cox

“People often say one thing but mean another; the truth lives in the space between.”
― The Universal Heart Observer, In the Spaces We Don't Talk About: A Companion For the Upspoken Truth We Carry

“Patterns don’t repeat because we’re weak. They repeat because they once felt familiar enough to feel like home.”
― Louise Fields, Stop Dating the Wrong Letters: A Playful-but-True Guide to Finding Love That Fits (Alphabetically Speaking)

“Just as cats don’t have any sense of time, loneliness must not exist for them either. There’s simply the time you spend alone and the time you spend with others.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“A human being can never really grieve their own death. Death is always something that happens to other people around them.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“I finally understood why it is that we humans keep cats as pets. There’s a limit to how well we know ourselves. For example, we don’t know what we look like to others; we can’t predict our own future or what our own death will be like. So that’s why we need cats, to help us understand ourselves better. It’s just like my mother said: Cats don’t need us. It’s us who needs them.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“With family you tend to take for granted the fact that they’ll always be there and that you’ll figure out how to get along somehow. [...] But it doesn’t work that way. You don’t have a family. You make a family.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“Sometimes, when Eve looks at him, she is baffled by the thought that thousands of people have met Danny, and only a fraction have fallen in love with him.”
― Laura Brooke Robson, Love Is an Algorithm