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“…you’re this fantastic pond,Hazel-a really cool,deep refreshing pond- and I’ve had the most unbelievable swim. But the thing is,you can only swim so far in a pond,can’t you?…. Cassis’s more like a river. There’s direction, there’s a current. And I need that Hazel. I’m sorry. I need her. I need to be with her. Until we reach the sea.’

‘If you let a man interfere with your art, you’re basically a prisoner… if you let him interfere with your creative process, you’re basically giving away your soul…’

‘If human beings had never travelled, would they ever have understood what the planet was, or appreciated the importance of saving it? To stop climate change, everyone would have to shut themselves away in their houses and never go anywhere further than walking or cycling distance. And that will never happen, she said,because we love our world too much to make the sacrifices necessary to preserve it.’

‘It is always the same with men,she thought. They want to be Columbus,wanted to plant their flagpoles,hated being reminded that the land mass in question was already on the man.’

‘…when we’re living in an apocalyptic climate-change hellhole, literature will basically just be the glacé cherry on top of a big pile of shit’

‘…we must consume and yet simultaneously we are consumed.’

‘You can make music out of silence, but you can’t make silence out of music’