Debbie Foster

…none of us really believe in our own demise. Some things are so vast or overwhelming that we effectively pretend they aren't there until reality forcefully obtrudes and our defences crumble.

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All education—whether it’s tailored for scholars, slackers, spies, or saboteurs—is really an education in the signs of belonging. We learn to wear the right clothes, say the right things, know the right codes—sometimes for a cover identity, sometimes for an identity we’re determined to make our own.

She lost track of herself hours ago, and now she's just out there, saying things.

dreams and precognitive visions represent not just future experiences but also our thoughts and emotions associated with those experiences. This goes a long way toward explaining why they often do not depict events completely accurately or literally.

The size of the place made the back of his neck tingle with a sort of anti-claustrophobia, his innate understanding of the right and proper scale of things constantly mocked and undermined in every direction that he stared.

I count myself among a growing number of scientists who believe that the construction of self identity is not much better than the Lo-fi representations of other people we hold in our heads.

Finally, here was the world's constantly broken promise of transcendence, the cosmic wonder I'd chased impatiently ever since I was a child, rounding every corner with an eager smile that faltered just as quickly. I'd been waiting my whole life to find a feeling this big. It was a religious conversion.

Feeling good, when you aren't functioning well, will not solve your languishing. Parents who are unduly focused on eliciting positive emotions from their children, rather than with their overall wellbeing, might be missing something important.