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The Butterfly Cabinet QUOTES

The Butterfly Cabinet QUOTES

1 " Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there. "

― Bernie Mcgill , The Butterfly Cabinet

2 " Life is fluid. We are the ghosts of all the people we might become, peering forward to catch a glimpse of what could be, our future selves staring back at us, at who we might have been, never were. "

― Bernie Mcgill , The Butterfly Cabinet

3 " This is not my prison. I carry it with me. We devise cages of our own choosing. "

― Bernie Mcgill , The Butterfly Cabinet

4 " But I'm getting to it. I can't come at it cold. I'm warming my hands over old stories. "

― Bernie Mcgill , The Butterfly Cabinet

5 " It's hard to do, to tell one story, when there are so many stories to tell. "

― Bernie Mcgill , The Butterfly Cabinet

6 " That's what we do: tell made-up stories to fend off the night, to put off telling the truth. "

― Bernie Mcgill , The Butterfly Cabinet

7 " You'll have to make do with the story instead, pieced together from the scraps of old lives. That is all I have. "

― Bernie Mcgill , The Butterfly Cabinet

8 " Children see more than adults. As grown men and women we are too engrossed in what we say to one another, in what the next move is; we are not enough in the present. Children carry a superior knowledge: they are closer to the root of things, of what is implied and not said. "

― Bernie Mcgill , The Butterfly Cabinet