Mackenzie

“Life is full of drowning people, ready and willing to drown you, too.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“Belief has very little to do with rationale. Why demand a map for uncharted territory?”
― Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

“There’s something about modernity and what we value now. Our shift in morality. Is there a general lack of compassion? Of interest in others? In connections? It’s all related. How are we supposed to achieve a feeling of significance and purpose without feeling a link to something bigger than our own lives? The more I think about it, the more it seems happiness and fulfillment rely on the presence of others, even just one other. The same way sadness requires happiness, and vice versa. Alone is . . .”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“Experience, not information, is the key to emotional development. It is in unsupervised, child-led play where children best learn to tolerate bruises, handle their emotions, read other children’s emotions, take turns, resolve conflicts, and play fair.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness