“Dangling a carrot in front of a donkey—or anyone else for that matter—is not nice, and not fair, unless you eventually plan to give it up to them.”
“I feel like a donkey, with a stick in my mouth and a carrot up my ass.”
“Hope is an illusion a dangling carrot something to keep us going but going towards what”
“Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it." "Are you saying we shouldn't hope?""I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open!”
“.. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.”
“Even cliffs are vulnerable, Captain Eversea, she thought. The sea gets at them, eventually, reshaping them inexorably, giving them no choice at all in the matter.”