Quotes from C.A. Fletcher

These people are dangerous because they think they are doing this because a god wants them to do it. It means they don't have to think like humans

Reading is another way we survive. It helps to know where we came from, how we got here. And most of all, for me, even though these low and empty islands are all I have ever known, when I open the front cover of a new book, it's like a door, and I can travel far away in place and time.

I guess no one's the monster in their own story. Monsters are just a matter of perspective.

I say she was a lady because a lady is a fancier kind of woman, and the dress was as fancy as you could imagine, long and luxurious and the liveliest yellow with black bits on the edges. It wasn't a dress you could have done anything useful in. It was a dress made to get in the way. It was, however, a very good dress for lounging in and looking at people. And her eyes were doing a very intense job of looking.

I decided I liked squirrels just as much as Jip did, but in a completely different way.

They like the god stuff. It makes them feel special, and it makes them feel less lonely about having been left behind at the end of things

the god stuff is not real.

Ends happen fast, and often arrive before you've been warned they're coming.

A brain can hold anything, from giant things, like distant stars and planets, to tiny things we can't see, like germs. A brain can even hold things that aren't and never were, like hobbits. A brain can hold the whole universe, a fist just holds what little it can grab. Or hits what it can't.

Better a brain than a fist. A brain can hold anything, from giant things, like distant stars and planets, to tiny things we can't see, like germs. A brain can even hold things that aren't and never were, like hobbits. A brain can hold the whole universe, a fist just holds what little it can grab. Or hits what it can't.

I was young and angry enough not to feel that, though this wasn't courage: young and angry is not the same as brave.

Though on the rare occasions when I did beat them, the infuriation that it sparked in my more careful siblings made victory all the sweeter.

Never trust someone who tells good stories, not until you know why they're doing it.

No one's the monster in their own story. Monsters are just a matter of perspective.

Solitude is its own kind of madness. Like hope itself.

Dogs were with us from the very beginning. And of all the animals that walked the long centuries beside us, they always walked the closest. And then they paid the price. Fuck us.

Never trust someone who tells good stories, not until you know why they're doing it.

Ends happen fast, and often arrive before you've been warned they're coming.

Forgetting is a kind of betrayal, even if it's what happens to all grief. Time wears everything smoother as it grinds past, I suppose.

Even the wide sea and the open sky can be claustrophobic if you never get away from them.

With so many marvels around you, did you stop seeing some of them?

But the thing about maybes is that you can get lost in them and end up going nowhere.

You can fall out of your own safe life that quickly, and nothing you thought you knew will ever be the same again.

brain can hold anything, from giant things, like distant stars and planets, to tiny things we can't see, like germs. A brain can even hold things that aren't and never were, like hobbits. A brain can hold the whole universe, a fist just holds what little it can grab. Or hits what it can't.