Ana Levisky

“Close your eyes and count to ten.
Advice that seems to work doesn't always work.
The final time I closed my eyes to get rid of a bee, the bee stung me on my eyelid. My eye swelled and wouldn't open. As if that bee's father had told it the best way to get rid of a human was to land on its closed eye.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

“Were they aware, in the intensity of their embrace, of something slightly ridiculous about this tableau, something almost comical, as someone nearby sneezed violently into a crumpled tissue; as a dirty discarded plastic bottle scuttled along the platform under a breath of wind; as a mechanised billboard on the station wall rotated from an advertisement for hair products to an advertisement for car insurance; as life in its ordinariness and even ugly vulgarity imposed itself everywhere all around them? Or were they in this moment unaware, or something more than unaware—were they somehow invulnerable to, untouched by, vulgarity and ugliness, glancing for a moment into something deeper, something concealed beneath the surface of life, not unreality but a hidden reality: the presence at all times, in all places, of a beautiful world?”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“(...) you just have to acknowledge that finding yourself at the start is not a regression. To "find yourself" anywhere is a good thing - it implies self-awareness. (...) at times, remembering why we care in the first place can be motivating.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

“Instead of traveling beyond the horizon, we could venture into our own consciences and colonize still-uninhabited parts of our internal landscapes.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast