Lucy

“She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“The closest you will ever come to seeing vampires burnt by daylight is by inviting a group of Danes for a hygge dinner and then placing them under a 5,000K fluorescent light tube. At first, they will squint, trying to examine the torture device you have placed in the ceiling. Then, as dinner begins, observe how they will move uncomfortably around in their chairs, compulsively scratching and trying to suppress twitches.”
― Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well

“Following these discoveries, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis stated that a culture's language both reflects how people experience their world and affects their actions in it. Would we still feel love if we had no word for it? Of course we would. But what would the world be like if we had no word for marriage? Our words and language shape our hopes and dreams for the future - and our dreams for the future shape how we act today.”
― Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well

“Be good. Do something good.”
― David Nicholls, One Day