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Spring (Seasonal, #3) QUOTES

Spring (Seasonal, #3) QUOTES

1 " My being ineligible makes you all the more eligible.

No worries. Happy to help.

Also you’ll notice this face resembles the drawings on the posters that tell you to report anything you think looks suspicious.

Tell the police if you see anyone who looks like me, because my face is of urgent matter to your nation.

Not at all. No problem. Glad to be of service. "

― Ali Smith , Spring (Seasonal, #3)

2 " ..cruelty to animals will get you punished but cruelty to humans will get you promotion. "

― Ali Smith , Spring (Seasonal, #3)

3 " We need to suggest the enemy within. We need enemies of the people we want their judges called enemies of the people we want their journalists called enemies of the people we want the people we decide to call enemies of the people called enemies of the people we want to say loudly over and over again on as many tv and radio shows as possible how they're silencing us. We need to say all the old stuff like it's new. We need news to be what we say it is. We need words to mean what we say they mean. We need to deny what we're saying while we're saying it. We need it not to matter what words mean. "

― Ali Smith , Spring (Seasonal, #3)

4 " What if the girl says. Instead of saying, this border divides places. We said, this border holds together two really interesting different places. What if we declared border crossings places where, listen, when you crossed them, you yourself became doubly possible. "

― Ali Smith , Spring (Seasonal, #3)

5 " You can’t just ask strangers to drive you up and down the country. This is the twenty first century. Strangers are more dangerous than ever; we’ve never been more dangerous. "

― Ali Smith , Spring (Seasonal, #3)

6 " What if . . . instead of saying, this border divides these places. We said, this border unites these places. This border holds together these two really interesting different places. What if we declared border crossings places where, listen, when you crossed them, you yourself became doubly possible. "

― Ali Smith , Spring (Seasonal, #3)

7 " Now what we don’t want is Facts. What we want is bewilderment. What we want is repetition. What we want is repetition. "

― Ali Smith , Spring (Seasonal, #3)

8 " Stop thieving my tragedy "

― Ali Smith , Spring (Seasonal, #3)

9 " With a bit of help and a bit of luck, we get to be more than the one thing or the nothing that history’d have us be. We’re only here by the grace and the work of others. I am anyway. Here’s to those others who helped, that’s my prayer when I go to my bed, and may I be such an other to a good many myself. "

― Ali Smith , Spring (Seasonal, #3)

10 " Things can change over time, what looks fixed and pinned and closed in a life can change and open, and what’s unthinkable and impossible at one time will easily be possible in another. "

― Ali Smith , Spring (Seasonal, #3)

11 " Mess up my climate, I’ll fuck with your lives. Your lives are a nothing to me. I’ll yank daffodils out of the ground in December. I’ll block up your front door in April with snow and blow down that tree so it cracks your roof open. I’ll carpet your house with the river. But I’ll be the reason your own sap’s reviving. I’ll mainline the light to your veins. "

― Ali Smith , Spring (Seasonal, #3)

12 " That’s what love is, this matter of hopeful travel against the usual deeply troubling odds. "

― Ali Smith , Spring (Seasonal, #3)

13 " because looking is just the start of understanding, just its surface, the top layer of any understanding, the girl is saying "

― Ali Smith , Spring (Seasonal, #3)

14 " Sometimes, he says, we don’t know why people do what they do. But we can only do our best, the best we can do, in response, and try to be as good-humoured as possible while we do it. "

― Ali Smith , Spring (Seasonal, #3)

15 " Fear is one of my belongings. Fear will always be a part of any belonging, anywhere, that I ever do, for the rest of my life. I fought hard, to get here to your country. And the first thing you did when I arrived was hand me a letter saying, "Welcome to a country in which you are not welcome. You are now a designated unwelcome person with whom we will do as we please. "

― Ali Smith , Spring (Seasonal, #3)

16 " We move from one invisibility to another. "

― Ali Smith , Spring (Seasonal, #3)

17 " I have always believed in not compromising the form the drama takes by underestimating what its natural potential offers. "

― Ali Smith , Spring (Seasonal, #3)

18 " He also knows he is and will be being recorded by CCTV cameras on both sides of the station. He knows these are the kinds of cameras that don’t know anything, don’t show anything beyond surface. He knows that what they do is the stupid new way of knowing everything. "

― Ali Smith , Spring (Seasonal, #3)

19 " Then the three minutes of black and white are over and what's left is the story of human beings and air, something we hardly ever notice or think about, something we couldn't live without. "

― Ali Smith , Spring (Seasonal, #3)

20 " The slightness of it gestures against the odds. It is like a magic spell. "

― Ali Smith , Spring (Seasonal, #3)