“That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That's why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster.” PeopleWorldFeelsChildrenRememberSufferingAliveWorstWalkingOrdinaryCarefulMonstersNakedParadoxBuriedShellsOnly TimeProtectiveArmourAdaptiveWalking Dead Book:Letters of Ted Hughes Source: Letters of Ted Hughes
“So we found the end of our journey. So we stood, alive in the river of light, Among the creatures of light, creatures of light.” EndsLightFoundAliveJourneyCreaturesRivers Book:Collected Poems of Ted Hughes Source: Collected Poems of Ted Hughes
