Sundial
Catriona Ward
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Kids are mirrors, reflecting back everything that happens to them. You’ve got to make sure they’re surrounded by good things.”
“I think I would do OK in prison, because I like small enclosed spaces and being alone.”
“When people say something is “unthinkable,” what they usually mean is that they don’t want to think it. They are resistant to an idea. But that is not what unthinkable means. I understand that, now. It means to be confronted with a thought so vast, dark, and monstrous that it will not fit into any known shapes in your mind. It is poison and madness flowering behind your eyes.”
“I don't know what it's like for other people, but love and nausea are often indistinguishable to me”
“It’s possible to feel the horror of something and to accept it all at the same time. How else could we cope with being alive?”
“Clocks are everywhere if you know how to recognize them. A dandelion is a clock, obviously. Rice pouring into a bowl is a clock, each grain marking the passage of time. A school assignment, an apple as it withers, a tree waiting for spring. Each of these things measures living moments, what remains before death. Tick, tock.”
“You can only do three things with danger: run away from it, fight it, or make friends with it. I don’t know which one to do.”
“We love them—or, need them. Those two can get mixed up.”
“The past always has its hands around your neck, doesn't it?”
“Moms are like the desert, too. Sometimes you can’t stop them.”
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Book Keywords:
timekeeping, sundial, love, nausea, passing-of-time, quotidian-pleasures, time
