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Consider this, and in our time As the hawk sees it, or the helmeted airman: — Helen Macdonald

White had learned that going back in time was a way of fixing things; uncovering past traumas, revisiting them and defusing their power. — Helen Macdonald

The hawk had filled the house with wildness as a bowl of lilies fills a house with scent. — Helen Macdonald

The light that filled my house was deep and livid, half magnolia, half rainwater. Things sat in it, dark and very still. — Helen Macdonald

The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life. — Helen Macdonald

For a boy who always felt imperilled, that pitch-black cave was a refuge, and he returned to it in his imagination again and again. — Helen Macdonald

The Once and Future King. By T. H. White, — Helen Macdonald

writing those lines in his small kitchen, the light wet on the oilskin tablecloth, the night close against the window. — Helen Macdonald

And now, holding the card in my hands and feeling its edges, all the grief had turned into something different. It was simply love. — Helen Macdonald

Deep in the muddled darkness six copper pheasant feathers glowed in a cradle of blackthorn. — Helen Macdonald

Sometimes a reckoning comes of all the lives we have lost, and sometimes we take it upon ourselves to burn them to ashes. — Helen Macdonald

The suffering of his body is as naught to the joy of being free from the pain of being seen. — Helen Macdonald

Falling in love is a desolating experience, but not when it is with a countryside. — Helen Macdonald

Goshawks are nervous because they live life ten times faster than we do, and they react to stimuli literally without thinking. — Helen Macdonald

it seems very extraordinary that the complex psychology of a human being can be taught with a stick. — Helen Macdonald

There was nothing that was such a salve to my grieving heart as the hawk returning. — Helen Macdonald

His mother lavished attention on her dogs and her husband had them shot. She lavished attention on the boy and the boy was convinced he'd be next. — Helen Macdonald

Vast flocks of fieldfares netted the sky, turning it to something strangely like a sixteenth-century sleeve sewn with pearls. — Helen Macdonald

This region was the centre of the flint industry in Neolithic times. And later, it became famous for rabbits farmed for meat and felt. — Helen Macdonald

Hands are for other human hands to hold. — Helen Macdonald

I know how to do this, I thought. I am good, at least, at this. I know all the steps to this dance — Helen Macdonald

Like a good academic, I thought books were for answers. — Helen Macdonald

Looking for goshwawks is like looking for grace: it comes, but not often, and you don't get to say when or how. — Helen Macdonald

I've learned how you feel more human once you have known, even in your imagination, what it is like to be not. — Helen Macdonald

Wild things are made from human histories. — Helen Macdonald

What makes you a chaffinch? — Helen Macdonald

war was the fault of the 'masters of men, everywhere, who subconsciously thrust others into suffering in order to advance their own powers'.28 — Helen Macdonald

I have learned, too, the danger that comes in mistaking the wildness we give a thing for the wildness that animates — Helen Macdonald

Stimulus: opera. Response: kill. — Helen Macdonald

We carry the lives we've imagined as we carry the lives we have, and sometimes a reckoning comes of all the lives we have lost. — Helen Macdonald

the austringer, the solitary trainer of goshawks and sparrowhawks, has had a pretty terrible press. — Helen Macdonald

It must have been like death,'3 he wrote, 'the thing which we can never know beforehand. — Helen Macdonald

She is unsure about dogs. Big dogs, that is. Small dogs fascinate her for other reasons. — Helen Macdonald

I learned that to harden your heart was not the same as not caring. — Helen Macdonald

No war can ever be just air. — Helen Macdonald

On the way home I felt a great and simple sadness. I missed my dad. I missed him very much. — Helen Macdonald

When you are broken, you run. But you don't always run away. Sometimes, helplessly, you run towards. — Helen Macdonald