Kate

“Our lives here are inexpressibly trivial and momentous at once, it seems he’s about to wake up and say. Both repetitive and unprecedented. We matter greatly and not at all. To reach some pinnacle of human achievement only to discover that your achievements are next to nothing and that to understand this is the greatest achievement of any life, which itself is nothing, and also much more than everything. Some metal separates us from the void; death is so close. Life is everywhere, everywhere.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“Surprising things (edited)
The imagination
The dinosaurs
A blue pen with a red lid
Green clouds
Children in bow ties”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“It wants what it wants. Hopes what it hopes. Needs what it needs loves what it loves.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“I like otters. Says Zaleekhah. They link paws so they don’t drift away from each other. Thats how they survive.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky