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“. . . One of the most human things about anxiety is that we try to cure chaos with chaos. Someone who has got themselves into a catastrophic situation rarely retreats from it, we're far more inclined to carry on even faster. We've created lives where we can watch other people crash into the wall but still hope that somehow we're going to pass straight through it. The closer we get, the more confidently we believe that some unlikely solution is miraculously going to save us, while everyone watching us is just waiting for the crash."
. . . So Zara asked, without any sarcasm, "Have you learned any theories about why people behave like that, then?"
"Hundreds," The psychologist smiled.
"Which one do you believe?"
"I believe the one that says that if you do it for long enough, it can become impossible to tell the difference between flying and falling.”
― Anxious People
. . . So Zara asked, without any sarcasm, "Have you learned any theories about why people behave like that, then?"
"Hundreds," The psychologist smiled.
"Which one do you believe?"
"I believe the one that says that if you do it for long enough, it can become impossible to tell the difference between flying and falling.”
― Anxious People
“I know there may be universes out there where I made different choices and they led me somewhere else, led me to someone else. And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn't end up with you.”
― Maybe in Another Life
― Maybe in Another Life
“I realised my life would be full of mundane physical suffering, and that there was nothing special about it. Suffering wouldn't make me special, and pretending not to suffer wouldn't make me special. Talking about it, or even writing about it, would not transform the suffering into something useful.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice.”
― The Gangster of Love: A Novel
― The Gangster of Love: A Novel
“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
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