Book: To be a cat

Life lied to him. Lied about the fact that things don't change. Everyone in the world has continued to and still. <...> The lie was easy to believe, because life is not peculiar to sudden changes.
Every next Monday is similar to the previous, not including the small parts. Every day the same faces, week after week - the same food, the same things. But this immutability of things is playing a cruel joke, because of her sudden change is scary, like a shark suddenly jumped out of the sea in front of the fisherman.

Sometimes that seems bad, actually turns out to be the best.

... area of the brain responsible for "things we believe" with age, becoming less and less.

... the only way to stop being afraid is to make others fear you.

If people tease you, it means they see something in you that scares them. Something special, something they themselves may not and that shines in you, like a precious stone.

No one can hurt you without your consent.