The Butterfly Cabinet Quotes

“Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.”
― Bernie Mcgill, The Butterfly Cabinet

“Life is fluid. We are the ghosts of all the people we might become, peering forward to catch a glimpse of what could be, our future selves staring back at us, at who we might have been, never were.”
― Bernie Mcgill, The Butterfly Cabinet

“This is not my prison. I carry it with me. We devise cages of our own choosing.”
― Bernie Mcgill, The Butterfly Cabinet

“That's what we do: tell made-up stories to fend off the night, to put off telling the truth.”
― Bernie Mcgill, The Butterfly Cabinet

“You'll have to make do with the story instead, pieced together from the scraps of old lives. That is all I have.”
― Bernie Mcgill, The Butterfly Cabinet

“But I'm getting to it. I can't come at it cold. I'm warming my hands over old stories.”
― Bernie Mcgill, The Butterfly Cabinet

“It's hard to do, to tell one story, when there are so many stories to tell.”
― Bernie Mcgill, The Butterfly Cabinet

“Children see more than adults. As grown men and women we are too engrossed in what we say to one another, in what the next move is; we are not enough in the present. Children carry a superior knowledge: they are closer to the root of things, of what is implied and not said.”
― Bernie mcgill, The Butterfly Cabinet