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41 " And he looked at the oil out of coffee beans, and at frogspawn, and, and anyway now we know what microbes are and what cells are and that the naked human eye can only see a fraction of what is actually there. And that this - (the spill of water on the table) – is full of life we can't see, and just because we can't see it doesn't mean it isn't. It really really is. "
― Ali Smith , Spring (Seasonal, #3)
42 " Ha, he says. Well. Crazy weather out You're missing nothing, Pad. One of the worst springs I can remember. Snow up to here just two there. weeks ago. Minus seven. And now this. Twenty nine degrees. You're wrong, she says. One of the loveliest springs I've known. Plants couldn't wait to get going. All that cold. All this green. "
43 " Certain white people in particular can look right through young people and also black and mixed race people like we aren't here. "
44 " It feels a little dangerous, to be so close to fairy tale. "
45 " Real strength was a matter of sensing something alive in you bigger than just your own breathing. "
46 " I don't care what language the time passes in, the girl says. So long as it passes. "
47 " Working title? Paddy says.<...>Same as the novel, he says. To persuade people it’s an adaptation of something a lot of people bought so it must be good. "
48 " A child grows up saying words that the rest of the world tells the child aren’t words. But the child and everybody the child holds dear all know that the words mean, and what the words mean. Listen, that child will be equipped, from the very beginning. For everything, dark and light, heavy and light, that life will bring to that child. "
49 " People like feeling. They like to be asked to feel. Feeling is a very powerful thing. "