Leah

“People can feel freed by these stories, but they can also get stuck in them.”
― Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

“What may be featureless to us, a waste of undifferentiated ocean, is for them rich with distinction and variety, a fissured and wrinkled landscape, dense in patches, thin in others, a rolling olfactory prairie of the desired and the desirable, mottled and unreliable, speckled with life, streaky with pleasures and dangers, marbled and flecked, its riches often hidden and always mobile, but filled with places that are pregnant with life and possibility.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

“The senses transform the coursing chaos of the world into perceptions and experiences—things we can react to and act upon. They allow biology to tame physics. They turn stimuli into information. They pull relevance from randomness, and weave meaning from miscellany. They connect animals to their surroundings. And they connect animals to each other via expressions, displays, gestures, calls, and currents.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

“Mental illnesses are often seen as chronic and intractable forces that take over our lives, but I wonder how much the stories we tell about them, especially in the beginning, can shape their course.”
― Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us