WHEN YOU ARE very depressed or anxious – unable to leave the house, or the sofa, or to think of anything but the depression – it can be unbearably hard. Bad days come in degrees. They are not all equally bad. And the really bad ones, though horrible to live through, are useful for later.… Continue reading Quotation Monday: Bank of bad days
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Quotation Monday #156: Predicting the future
Everything in the universe, and everything of man, would be registered at a distance as it was produced. In this way a moving image of the world will be established, a true mirror of his memory. From a distance, everyone will be able to read text, enlarged and limited to the desired subject, projected on… Continue reading Quotation Monday #156: Predicting the future
Quotation Monday #155: Feminism
Then an academic, a Nigerian woman, told me that feminism was not our culture, that feminism was un-African, and I was only calling myself a feminist because I had been influenced by Western books. (Which amused me, because much of my early reading was decidedly unfeminist: I must have read every single Mills & Boon… Continue reading Quotation Monday #155: Feminism
Quotation Monday #154: Being alone
I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Quotation Monday #153: Librarians
“I’m a librarian,” she blurted out, unable to take the sexual tension entangled with the biting edge of male fury. “Everyone knows we’re repressed old ladies with too many cats.” Rock Addiction: Volume 1 (Rock Kiss) by Nalini Singh
Quotation Monday #152: Reading
Well, he read in the strangest way. I mean, I could never read unless I’d have a rainy afternoon or a long evening in bed, or something. He’d read walking, he’d read at the table, at meals, he’d read after dinner, he’d read in the bathtub, he’d read—prop open a book on his desk—on his… Continue reading Quotation Monday #152: Reading
Quotation Monday #151: Chances
“I’d like to have the chance to decide what my life will be like, I think that’s the best present anyone can get. The chance to decide what your life will be like.” – The List of my desires by Gregoire Delacourt
Quotation Monday #150: Dinner
“I found that if I was eating well, there was a good chance that I was living well, too. I found that when I prioritized dinner, a lot of other things seemed to fall into place.” – Dinner: A Love Story: It all begins at the family table by Jenny Rosenstrach
Quotation Monday #149 – No normal
“There is boring. There is sensational. There is mediocre. There is lazy. There is good. There is evil. People do implausible things all the time, and they run the gamut of moderately weird to truly extraordinary. But there is no normal. The world is an unbelievable place full of unbelievable people doing unbelievable things.” ―… Continue reading Quotation Monday #149 – No normal