Lucy

“To those waiting on love, be patient. Love is a total drama queen. It’s just waiting to make an entrance.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“So why bother investing in one's memory in the age of externalized memories? The best answer I can give is the one that I received unwittingly from EP, whose memory had been so completely lost that he could not place himself rin time or space, or relative to other people. That is: How we perceive the world and how we act in it are products of how and what we remember. We're all just a bundle of of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks or our memory. No lasting joke, invention, insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least. Or ability to find humour in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory. Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values ad source of our character. [...] That's what Ed had been trying to impart to me from the beginning: that memory training is not just fro the sake of performing partyb tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.”
― Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

“Death cares little for age or gender, and loss will touch us all at some point. But there's always hope that we may one day greet our loved ones again, whether through faith, magic, or simply our dreams.”
― M.F. Moody, Family Justice

“As Christianity spread across Europe, the Church basically adopted these various pagan, Norse, Roman, and Celtic traditions as their own, choosing to celebrate the birth of Christ on December 25,31 for example, because it was already associated with feasting, sacrament, and rebirth.”
― Matt Siegel, The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat