“Did his death put food on your table? Did it make any of our lives any better? Dying for a cause doesn’t do a bloodydamn thing. It just robbed us of his laughter.”
“But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. I see a creature whose present existence must have come as a surprise even to itself.”
― How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
― How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
“The world’s not a good place for a child.” She frowns. “That’s not true. Look around.” I do. And wonder what she can see that I can’t.”
― Wild Dark Shore
― Wild Dark Shore
“So what if you could do it over? And then again? What body would you choose? Who would you be and who would you love? Would you do it over, and over, and over again?”
― How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
― How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
“But here is the nature of life. That we must love things with our whole selves, knowing they will die.”
― Wild Dark Shore
― Wild Dark Shore
“Maybe it is not unlikely at all. Where men go there is harm.”
― Wild Dark Shore
― Wild Dark Shore
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