Heather

“Perhaps the witch-hare’s true magic, I thought, is the wish she inspires, just for a moment, to step out of the human form. To race across the ground with the speed and power of a hare, without tiring; to inhabit its senses and revel in a world of sound, scent and sensation far greater than our own; and to move through the night as effortlessly as if through sunlight.”
― Chloe Dalton, Raising Hare: A Memoir

“There is a crazy-wild delight that comes over you when you discover something new, something extraordinary. If you try to share that and people look at you blankly, it's crushing. But if there's someone else there to say really?! and take fire with enthusiasm alongside you - well, that will keep you going for a long time.”
― T. Kingfisher, Hemlock & Silver

“to see a world in a grain of sand,” then perhaps we can see all nature in a hare: its simplicity and intricacy, fragility and glory, transience and beauty.”
― Chloe Dalton, Raising Hare: A Memoir

“The problem with being plump, middle-aged, and a woman was that people expected you to be motherly, as if that was your default state.”
― T. Kingfisher, Hemlock & Silver