“And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?”
“I'm not happy," she whispered. "I don't know what I am, but this isn't happiness.”
“I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.”
“Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist.""Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not sad.""That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too.”
“When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?”
“I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.”