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  • Quotation Monday: Bank of bad days

    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. You store them up. A bank of bad days. The day you had to run out of the supermarket. The day you were so depressed your tongue wouldn’t move. The day you made your parents cry. The day you nearly threw yourself off a cliff. So you are having another bad day you can say, Well, this feels bad, but there have been worse. And even when you can think of no worse day – when you are living in the very worst there has ever been – you at least know the bank exists and that you have made a deposit.

    -Matt Haig –

  • 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 an individual screen. In this way, everyone from his armchair will be able to contemplate creation, in whole or in certain parts
    – Seeing forward from the early 20th century
    – Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age by Alex Wright

  • 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 romance published before I was sixteen. And each time I try to read those books called “classic feminist texts,” I get bored, and I struggle to finish them.)

    – We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • 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 bureau—while he was doing his tie. You know, he’d just read in little, he’d open some book I’d be reading, you know, just devour it. He really read all the times you don’t think you have time to read.

    – Jacqueline Kennedy.

    Jacqueline Kennedy : Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy

  • 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.”

    ― Penny Reid, Love Hacked