← But if all these excuses aren’t enough, I would like to dedicate the book to the child this grown-up person used to be.
← You need to get used to checking everything regularly and pulling up the baobabs as soon as you can see they aren’t roses. 🔊✎
← “But then what use are the thorns?”
← “So what use are the thorns?”
← “The thorns are no use at all. The flowers just do it to be mean.”
← “So what use is it to own the stars?”
← “And what use is it to be rich?”
← It used to be okay. I put out the streetlight in the morning and I lit it again in the evening. 🔊✎
← The only mountains he had ever known were his three volcanoes, which came up to his knees. He used the extinct volcano as a stool. 🔊✎