Apphia

“In a full heart, there is room for everything, and in an empty heart, there is room for nothing.”
― Antonio Porchia, Argentinian poet

“A completely isolated individual, if
such a thing ever existed, could not blush. As Darwin explains, “we cannot
cause a blush … by any physical means—that is by an other action of the
body. It is the mind which must be affected … [by] thinking of what others
think of us.”55 Here we can see the sympathy not just of a person’s body parts
with each other—brain with facial muscles and blood vessels—but also with
the emotionally charged presence (sometimes imagined) of another person.
Blushing is a physiological habit, a way of transacting with the world that
illustrates how other beings are entangled in the psychosomatic functioning
of a person’s body.”
― Shannon Sullivan, The Physiology of Sexist and Racist Oppression

“Man knows how to cry from birth, but laughter takes some learning.”
― Max Pallenberg, Austrian singer

“The water's boiling.' Her voice had no weight to it, like feathers. It was neither gloomy not absent-minded, as might be expected of someone who was ill. But it wasn't bright or lighthearted either. It was the tone of t a person who didn't belong anywhere, someone who had passed into a border area between states of being.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian