good sh*t
"Our reality isn’t about what’s real, it’s about what we pay attention to.”
Hank Green • A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor: A Novel (The Carls Book 2)
A poignant observation
The sun rose. I found no revelation. I’m not Socrates. (I know Socrates, I served with Socrates, and you, senator… But I digress.)
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone • This Is How You Lose the Time War
And when I felt nothing I almost became nostalgic for the grief; at least when you felt pain you knew you were still alive.
Matt Haig • How to Stop Time
It was all such an insult, the Hamptons. It was an insult to economic disparity. It was an insult to leading a good life and asking hard questions about what one should sacrifice in the name of decency. It was an insult to having enough—to knowing that there was such a thing as enough. Inside those houses weren’t altruistic, good people whom fortun
... See moreAnd she died and I lived and a hole opened up, dark and bottomless, and I fell down and kept falling for centuries.
Matt Haig • How to Stop Time
This is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.
Gabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
But then, somehow, it got in.
No. Not got in. That's the wrong way of putting it. Music doesn't get in. Music is already in. Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn't necessarily know you had inside you, and runs around waking them all up. A rebirth of sorts.
There was such a yearning and energy to it. I closed my
... See moreMatt Haig • How to Stop Time
What is the word for when you know everyone is taking something too seriously, that the way it’s taking over your life isn’t normal, that it’s a little ridiculous, that it’s clearly what a bunch of rich kids stuck in a decade of ivory tower schooling need in order to think of themselves as real, living people? What is the word for the displaced ene
... See moreTaffy Brodesser-Akner • Long Island Compromise
"decolonization," probably
What a world, Sadie thought. People once made glass sculptures of decay, and they put these sculptures in museums. How strange and beautiful human beings are. And how fragile.