Kenia Sedler

“When you have no future, you vote for the past.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

“Productivity is a trap. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed, and trying to clear the decks simply makes them fill up again faster. Nobody in the history of humanity has ever achieved “work-life balance,” whatever that might be, and you certainly won’t get there by copying the “six things successful people do before 7:00 a.m.” The day will never arrive when you finally have everything under control—when the flood of emails has been contained; when your to-do lists have stopped getting longer; when you’re meeting all your obligations at work and in your home life; when nobody’s angry with you for missing a deadline or dropping the ball; and when the fully optimized person you’ve become can turn, at long last, to the things life is really supposed to be about. Let’s start by admitting defeat: none of this is ever going to happen. But you know what? That’s excellent news.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“He has no friends, no living relatives. No one to call. If we are not in someone else’s memory, do we even exist at all?”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

“...I was completely lost when I heard Heather and Lucy shout out the litany of ducks: common goldeneye, gadwall, long-tailed duck, bufflehead, redhead, ring-necked duck, white-winged scoter, red-breasted merganser, northern shoveler. If someone had told me then that it would take me five years to comfortably ID all those ducks, I would have quit on the spot.”
― Julia Zarankin, Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir