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“I have to be alone,” he replied. He had wanted to say it in a soothing way, but it sounded hard. He heard it himself. Faline looked at him and quietly asked, “Do you still love me?” Bambi did not hesitate and answered, “I don’t know.” She went calmly away and left him alone.”
― Felix Salten, Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten: A Tale of Innocence, Growth, and the Natural World

“Opportunities are like little seeds floating in the wind. Your life is there. Some people have a big net to collect them all. Other people need to pray that the right seeds, the best ones, make their way to them with just enough bad ones to appreciate the good.”
― Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

“Wish in one hand and do something else in the other, and squeeze them both and see which comes true.”
― Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber

“I've always been proud of how much my daughter cared about the world. After school she’d study the news, comb the internet for disasters, wars and hate and injustice, write it all down in these color-coded journals. Once, I asked her what she was doing, and she said she was just trying to keep track of it all because it didn’t seem like anybody else noticed or cared that we kept making the same mistakes, that hate in a neighborhood or injustice in a state ran like poison through veins, until another ice shelf collapsed or another animal went extinct. Everything is connected, she’d say. And I’d tell her, You’re only one person and you only have one life.”
― Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark