Heidi

“What does a man’s life amount to? What does the life of a thousand, a billion? What is an ant’s life worth? I see now that the answer is irrelevant. It’s the question that matters. Should the ant let itself die, crushed under the weight of its own insignificance? Or should it live, fight giants, and build magnificent cities underground? What do I choose?”
― Sylvain Neuvel, Only Human

“The Other world had equality now, they said, but what they meant was that everyone had the means to exhibit their own particular unpleasantness.”
― Andrew Michael Hurley, The Loney

“Often, it is easier for us to grieve for those we don’t know, than it is to grieve for those we love most.”
― Emily Littlejohn, Inherit the Bones

“Life has a funny way of waylaying our best-laid plans; life keeps us busy in ways that seem, at the time, more important than self-care and introspection.”
― Emily Littlejohn, Inherit the Bones