Just 3 Quotes - 01.20.2020
3 quotes from 3 books. Sent weekly.
Enjoy!
—Mark
“The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. The rest of the animals pay once for every mistake they make.”
—The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz
“His son had become, like so many vulnerable people, obsessed with animals, and my neighbour had involved himself in more headaches than he could possibly recount by giving in to the unceasing requests that this or that helpless creature be rescued and given a home.”
—Outline, by Rachel Cusk
“I would make a new home for them in my AT-AT Walker—a Star Wars toy with legs from The Empire Strikes Back: it struck back very hard at Essex’s wildlife, with me as the Emperor’s well-intentioned idiot apprentice. All my other Star Wars figures lived in there too, so if you opened it up you’d see Lando Calrissian, a storm trooper and a baby sparrow—an unlikely trio, yes, the three’v’em’ve all got their foibles, sure, but they’ve got each other, and they’ll all learn something on this journey they’re taking together.”
—My Booky Wook, by Russell Brand