Sublime

My friends, generally, are bad at subtlety, sobriety and money management.

realized: I don’t think I’m cut out to support a male artist. And I’m certainly not cut out to have a family with one.

“Insipid/idealistic portrayals of motherhood made me less interested in it as a young person. I thought it was boring when it’s one of the most extreme socio-political experiences I have ever been through.”

Maria Popova, who writes the popular site The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), spends her days reading old books and essays. She’s passionate about finding ideas, beauty, and wisdom in these texts and then connecting them in her own unique conversation with the world.

Every good night out hinges on discontent.

‘When people are tired and hungry, which in adult life is much of the time, they do not want to be confronted by an intellectually challenging meal: they want to be consoled.’

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‘She’s a living anachronism. One would think we were in the Dark Ages.

Lucy wonders now if she’s spent her entire life distracting herself from the reality that there were too many gaps in the story of her family. A hollowness where the truth ought to be.