Kate

“I found that the fuller and richer my life became, the less I looked to food for comfort and entertainment.”
― Jen Lancaster, Welcome to the United States of Anxiety: Observations from a Reforming Neurotic

“People act like you can never forget your own name, but if you’re not paying attention, you can veer so incredibly far away from everything you know about yourself to the point where you stop recognizing what they call you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“Monica. There’s no debating her. She possesses a gunslinger’s speed on her cell. Say anything, and she’ll call up some paper or study refuting your point in nanoseconds. It’s like arguing with the progeny of ChatGPT and the American Civil Liberties Union.”
― Cate Holahan, The Kidnapping of Alice Ingold

“The phone-based life makes it difficult for people to be fully present with others when they are with others, and to sit silently with themselves when they are alone. If we want to experience stillness and silence, and if we want to develop focus and a sense of unified consciousness, we must reduce the flow of stimulation into our eyes and ears.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness