Rachel

“Based on my own experience, I believe the brain is as soft and malleable as bread dough when we’re young. I am grateful for every class trip to the symphony I went on and curse any night I was allowed to watch The Brady Bunch, because all of it stuck. Conversely, I am now capable of forgetting entire novels that I’ve read, and I’ve been influenced not at all by books I passionately love and would kill to be influenced by. Think about this before you let your child have an iPad.”
― Ann Patchett, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

“After work, she wandered around the center of Baltimore, aimlessly, interested in nothing. Was this what the novelists meant by ennui?”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“or like Jeff Goldblum says in Jurassic Park, “Life finds a way.”
― David Lipsky, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace

“We are flying over a ball of fire.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend