“It seemed to me an odd view to take - rather as if one should protest that one didn't LIKE the idea of dying or being born. I preferred the notion of finding out first how it would be, and then doing what one could about the parts of it one disliked most.” LifeDeathChangeExplorationOpinionsBeing Born Book:The Day of the Triffids Source: The Day of the Triffids
“There was the feeling, too, that she no longer belonged – that she had become a stranger in another people’s world. It had all altered so much; first changing into a place that it was difficult to understand, then growing so much more complex that one gave up trying to understand. No wonder, she thought, that the old become possessive about things; cling to objects which link them with the world that they could understand…” ChangeBelongingAgeingLonliness Book:Consider Her Ways and Others Source: Consider Her Ways and Others