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Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.
“Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.”
Maya Angelou

Rob Reiner
“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
Rob Reiner

Rose Macaulay
“We may say that all ages are dangerous to all people, in this dangerous life we live. But the thirties are a specially dangerous time for women. They have outlived the shyness and restraints of girlhood, and not attained to the caution and discretion of middle age. They are reckless, and consciously or unconsciously on the lookout for adventure. They see ahead of them the end of youth, and that quickens their pace.”
Rose Macaulay, Dangerous Ages

Stieg Larsson
“Then she sat as if paralyzed, thinking. She had never in her life felt such a longing. She wanted Mikael Blomkvist to ring the doorbell and ... what then? Lift her off the ground, hold her in his arms? Passionately take her to the bedroom and tear off her clothes? No, she really just wanted his company. She wanted to hear him say that he liked her for who she was. That she was someone special in his world and in his life. She wanted him to give her some gesture of love, not just of friendship and companionship.”
Stieg Larsson translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland

John Koenig
“23 Emotions people feel, but can’t explain

1.    Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.
2.    Opia: The ambiguous intensity of Looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.
3.    Monachopsis: The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.
4.    Énouement: The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.
5.    Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.
6.    Rubatosis: The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.
7.    Kenopsia: The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.
8.    Mauerbauertraurigkeit: The inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.
9.    Jouska: A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.
10.    Chrysalism: The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.
11.    Vemödalen: The frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.
12.    Anecdoche: A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening
13.    Ellipsism: A sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out.
14.    Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.
15.    Lachesism: The desire to be struck by disaster – to survive a plane crash, or to lose everything in a fire.
16.    Exulansis: The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.
17.    Adronitis: Frustration with how long it takes to get to know someone.
18.    Rückkehrunruhe: The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.
19.    Nodus Tollens: The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.
20.    Onism: The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.
21.    Liberosis: The desire to care less about things.
22.    Altschmerz: Weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had – the same boring flaws and anxieties that you’ve been gnawing on for years.
23.    Occhiolism: The awareness of the smallness of your perspective.

John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (Simon & Schuster, November 16, 2021)”
John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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