“The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.”
“What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?”
“Anyone who's lived has lost somebody.”
“Sometimes the greatest tests of our strength are situations that don't seem so obviously dangerous. Sometimes surviving is the hardest thing of all.”
“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.”
“No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine.”