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“Nie cierpię sposobu w jaki się wysławiasz. Co znaczy "spróbuję wsiąść"? Przecież "spróbować wsiąść" i "wsiąść" to ostatecznie jedno i to samo. Czy skręcisz w prawo na próbę czy z pełnym przekonaniem twój los będzie taki sam. Jedno i drugie jest nieodwołalne. Z chwilą gdy spróbujesz, twój los zostaje przypieczętowany. W życiu nie robi się niczego na próbę. Spróbować coś zrobić oznacza po prostu zrobienie tego.”

“Whenever I get like this, all suffocated in my head, like, I remember a little card Theresa once made for the twins. 'We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.' It's a quote from some wan with a name like mayonnaise. I've spent a lot of time turning that line over in my head. At first I hated it, cos it means there's no reality, only what we feel. And that's a load of bollocks. But there's something to it, all the same. Like, life's indifferent. It's got enough joy and shite in it to mirror whatever you're bringing to the table, day in, day out..”

“The cycle of the seasons, to which poets have so often turned as a reminder that nothing in this world is stable, is in fact one of the great constants in life. In some ways, the thousand years or more that have elapsed since the poems in this book were written have changed our world beyond recognition - but every year, when the blossom springs and the leaves fall, we see what the Anglo-Saxon poets saw. The revolving cycle finds us each year at a different moment in the story of our own lives; the unfolding events of history change us, but the seasons do not change.”