Matthew De Abaitua, If Then Quotes

Kindness is not entered onto the great ledger of civilisation.

Horror is the awakening of repressed knowledge, something that you have known all along but kept at the periphery of awareness so that life can go on.

Humans make tools. Some animals make tools too. The making and using of tools is important for developing language, how we think and speak. If we do not make anything, it affects our thinking.

Her self lagged behind her anger, like a mother picking up after a destructive child.

If you said to me, “I do not love, I have never loved, ” then you would sound incomplete. Equally, if you say “I do not hate, I have never hated, ” then you sound like half a man.

Exhaustion is a thin blanket tattered with bullet holes.

It is in his obsessions that mankind most closely resembles his machines.