Kathryn Davis Quotes

Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty.

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The world had edges but you couldn’t see them going, only when you were trying to come back.

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...the beginning and the end of time. These are the same thing, as everybody knows who came into this universe via a wormhole.

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It isn’t time that folds, it’s space.

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History is boring, Janice concurred, undaunted as usual. It’s not like the Ride of the Valkyries. It’s what comes before history that isn’t boring.

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Some people think what you’re supposed to do in life is fill yourself up with loads of things like names, the more the better. But that’s not how it works.

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There was a worm addicted to grape leaves, she continued, and suddenly it woke up. Call it a miracle, whatever, something woke it up and it wasn’t a worm anymore. It was the whole vineyard, and the orchard too, the fruit, the trunks, an ever-expanding joy that didn’t need to devour anything.

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This is because the Greeks had it backward, and no matter how hard humans try thinking otherwise, they still think like Greeks. For the Greeks, when you looked ahead all you saw was the past. It was like the past was the future.

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