Barbara Ellis

“She had once read in a book about consciousness that over the years, the human brain makes an AI version of your loved ones. The brain collects data, and within your brain, you host a virtual version of that person. Upon the person’s death, your brain still believes the virtual person exists, because, in a sense, the person still does. After a while, though, the memory fades, and each year, you are left with an increasingly diminished version of the AI you had made when the person was alive.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“I know now that, when you get to a grandfather’s age, life takes on the qualities of comedy, with aches.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

“Art is a moment. Art is being a reason. Art is coping with being alive for one more week.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Better to believe the world is at least half-full of decent intentions than to focus on how it’s also half-full of assholes.”
― Mary Laura Philpott, Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives