# Quote — M. John Harrison, Light

> Then he heard a voice say: “It was amazing to them to discover they had always been in the garden without understanding it,” and knew for certain that the inside and the outside of everything are always a single, continuous medium. In that moment he believed he could go anywhere. With a shout of elation he attempted to fall forward in all possible directions at once; only to find to his dismay that in the very exercise of this privilege he had selected one of them.

- Author: [M. John Harrison](https://www.leafyquotes.com/m-john-harrison.md)
- Book: [Light](https://www.leafyquotes.com/m-john-harrison/light.md)
- Page: 383
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/m-john-harrison/light/then-he-heard

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> Generally, it was impossible to understand the motives of aliens.

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> People think it’s a failure to live alone. But it isn’t. The failure is to live with someone because you can’t face anything else.

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> “Everywhere you look it unpacks to infinity. What you look for, you find. And you people can have it. All of it.”
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> The comfortable generosity of this offer puzzled Kearney, so he decided to ignore it. It seemed meaningless anyway.

p. 390 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/m-john-harrison/light/everywhere-you-look.md)