115 Quotes by Sara Baume

I realise that you were not born with a predetermined capacity for wonder, as I’d believed. I realise that you fed it up yourself from tiny pieces of the world. I realise it’s up to me to follow your example and nurture my own wonder, morsel by morsel by morsel.

I never went downstairs to join my housemates around the television. I cooked dinner later than everyone else and carried the plate up to my bedroom. I knew they must have thought me aloof, or a little bit eccentric, or maybe even unkind, but I didn’t care. Once the kitchen door swung shut behind me, I was alone, and so everything was okay.

I was wrong to try and impose something of my humanity on you, when being human never did me any good.

I’ve never been anywhere in the world. I wouldn’t know how to get there in the first place.

I knew precisely what things I wanted to do – and when and why – and I was deeply resentful of other people’s attempts to enforce structure on my days.

Life never misses an opportunity to upscuttle us, I think. Life likes to tell us it told us so.

But with summer comes hope, and with hope comes disappointment.