The Butterfly Cabinet Quotes
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The Butterfly Cabinet Quotes
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“Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.”
― The Butterfly Cabinet
― 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.”
― The Butterfly Cabinet
― The Butterfly Cabinet
“This is not my prison. I carry it with me. We devise cages of our own choosing.”
― The Butterfly Cabinet
― The Butterfly Cabinet
“That's what we do: tell made-up stories to fend off the night, to put off telling the truth.”
― The Butterfly Cabinet
― 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.”
― The Butterfly Cabinet
― The Butterfly Cabinet
“But I'm getting to it. I can't come at it cold. I'm warming my hands over old stories.”
― The Butterfly Cabinet
― The Butterfly Cabinet
“It's hard to do, to tell one story, when there are so many stories to tell.”
― The Butterfly Cabinet
― 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.”
― The Butterfly Cabinet
― The Butterfly Cabinet