29 Quotes by C.A. Fletcher

Ends happen fast, and often arrive before you’ve been warned they’re coming.

Nothing’s perfect. Especially not me. I’m just like you were. Human. Hanging on. Holding out for a happy ending. But knowing it ends badly. And then being surprised by joy.

But the thing about maybes is that you can get lost in them and end up going nowhere.

Does absence have a weight?

Forgetting is a kind of betrayal, even if it’s what happens to all grief. Time wears everything smoother as it grinds past, I suppose.

I decided I liked squirrels just as much as Jip did, but in a completely different way.

In the end, I realised it was about mourning someone and being betrayed by a second of happiness that makes you forget your loss for a moment, and then feeling worse because that unthinking instant of happiness ends up feeling like a betrayal of the lost one.

With so many marvels around you, did you stop seeing some of them?

Gods are just stories now. Bar said that’s all they really were anyway: stories to make sense of lives of those who wanted someone else to take charge of them, rather than cut their own way.