“Slowly the conversation sputtered. We started talking like people who used to be close, catching each other up on our lives rather than living them together. By the time he payed the bill, I knew that whatever we had been, we weren’t anymore.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“It’s a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place,”
― Inkheart / Inkspell / Inkdeath
― Inkheart / Inkspell / Inkdeath
“I want to share something Virginia Woolf wrote: 'English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache...The merest schoolgirl when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.' And we're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And so we assume it isn't real. We refer to it with catch-all terms, like crazy or chronic pain, terms that both ostracize and minimize. The term chronic pain captures nothing of the grinding, constant, ceaseless,inescapable hurt. And the term crazy arrives at us with none of the terror and worry you live with. Nor do either of those terms connote the courage people in such pains exemplify, which is why I'd ask you to frame your mental health around a word other than crazy.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“It was as if he didn't want other people to talk to him, he was afraid that their chattering voices would drown out the memory of her voice.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
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