“I’m too busy trying not to be in love with someone who isn’t real.”
― Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
― Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
“The way I feel about him is like a heartbeat -- soft and persistent, underlying everything.”
― Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
― Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
“To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“The moment the first hunter-gatherer set foot on an Australian beach was the moment that Homo sapiens climbed to the top rung in the food chain on a particular landmass and thereafter became the deadliest species in the annals of planet Earth.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Advice for wives circa 1896: The indiscriminate reading of novels is one of the most injurious habits to which a married woman can be subject. Besides the false views of human nature it will impart … it produces an indifference to the performance of domestic duties, and contempt for ordinary realities.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
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