Omer

“Miriam had lost the talent for friendship when she was young, and once gone, it was a difficult thing to recover. Like loneliness, the absence of friendship was self-perpetuating: the harder you tried to make people like you, the less likely they were to do so; most people recognized right away that something was off, and they shied away.”
― Paula Hawkins, A Slow Fire Burning

“The difficulty that we experience in trying to think about the future in terms of probabilities is the mirror image of our preference for explanations that account for known outcomes at the expense of alternative possibilities.”
― Duncan J. Watts, Everything is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer

“Nonlinear thinking means which way you should go depends on where you already are. This insight isn’t new.”
― Jordan Ellenberg, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

“Everything is material. And comedy equals tragedy plus time. Isn’t that how it goes?”
― Paula Hawkins, A Slow Fire Burning