chirysalis’s Reviews > Weak in Comparison to Dreams > Status Update

"... did he just use animals to talk about racism and gender discrimination and misogyny???"

"I listened to their language.
Not a single word came through.
This is the strange loneliness of the cocooned mind. The certainty that the world is out there, free of the threads that crisscross the cocoon and entangle every thought."

"Sometimes in dreams impossible things are simple, like walking while standing still."

"We got too far apart to hear each other. One time I looked to see where she’d gone, and I saw only brush and hills. That was when I realized what sadness is, [...]"

"Happiness is when things simply are. You can ask yourself if you deserve to be so happy, and you can try to figure out how to keep yourself happy, but you won’t get very far, because your mind is flooded with happiness."

the writing is immaculate