Petting dogs was good for people; it was a scientific fact. Burt was a wise man, too, in his way. All animals are.
“Love’s pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
“Our entire society is based on discontent. People wanting more and more and more. Being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their décor, their clothes, everything – taking it for granted that that’s the whole point of life. Never to be satisfied. If you are perfectly happy with what you got, especially if what you got isn’t even all that spectacular then you’re dangerous. You’re breaking all the rules. You’re undermining the sacred economy. You’re challenging every assumption that society is built on.”
― The Likeness
― The Likeness
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
― In the Woods
― In the Woods
“Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.”
― The Likeness
― The Likeness
“Human beings, as I know better than most, can get used to anything. Over time, even the unthinkable gradually wears a little niche for itself in your mind and becomes just something that happened.”
― In the Woods
― In the Woods
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