Eleanor Morse Quotes & Sayings

The world does not wish to be saved. It carries us a short distance and drops us when it's done with us. — Eleanor Morse

He believed in something larger than himself, but there was no evidence to point to someone or something listening to a man with brown leather shoes and a sweaty shirt. He didn't find this unusual or disturbing. Why should he be noticed when there were so many others to notice? It was like the dry blades of grass at his feet. Every blade was different, reaching for the sky in its own humble way, but from a goat's perspective, they were all the same: something to eat. — Eleanor Morse

We are doorways, openings into something greater than ourselves, something that we don't understand and will never understand. We have nothing precious in and of ourselves. We are only precious in that we are part of something that is too big to know. — Eleanor Morse

By day, Ian was like the stars, there but not there. At night was when the beasts of grief came for her. — Eleanor Morse

It seemed that white people were the ones who believed in divine justice. That was because long ago, they'd come with their guns and greed and taken what they wanted. They'd long since forgotten what they'd done, and now they thought the land had always been theirs. — Eleanor Morse

The bitter heart eats its owner. — Eleanor Morse

It's a fearful thing to love what death can touch. — Eleanor Morse

What is a bird if it can't fly? It might as well be a cockroach. — Eleanor Morse

Every person alive thinks they are the center of the universe, that they are everything, when in fact each of us is less than nothing. — Eleanor Morse