“The benefit of carrying the entire world on your shoulders was that you didn’t have to stare it in the face.”
― A Different Familiar
― A Different Familiar
“My first big break came when I was five years old. It's taken me more than seventy years to realise that. You see, at five I first learnt to read. It's that simple and it's that profound.”
― Being a Scot
― Being a Scot
“It was all very isolating to think about, what people use to define themselves and their actions. And at the end of the day, did it make people feel better? Maybe it did. Maybe it gave them something to grasp at in the ambiguous vein of life on Earth.”
― A Different Familiar
― A Different Familiar
“Time limits tend to turn everything predictable and mundane into a novelty.”
― A Different Familiar
― A Different Familiar
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