Heather

“They would fail. We would always fail. We weren’t built to do anything but fail. We had the wrong kind of motives and we couldn’t change them. We had a built-in short-sightedness and an inherent selfishness and a self-concern that made it impossible to step out of the little human rut we traveled…”
― Clifford D. Simak, All Flesh Is Grass

“We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.”
― P.D. James, The Children of Men

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
― Stephen Baxter, The Long Earth

“Why are bad boys always so attractive? I suppose, at the end of the day, if you’re not good-looking you don’t get away with being a bad boy. You just get called a thug.”
― Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water