Nouf

“think we desire unity because we have felt it before and we want to feel it again. It’s our natural state.’ ‘Eternity as a concept is a bit terrifying,’ he says. ‘Only if time exists as we experience it. Which we know it does not. Without time, eternity loses its bite.”
― Lily King, Heart the Lover

“Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“The longer you live, the harder it becomes. To grab them. Each little moment as it arrives. To be living in something other than the past or the future. To be actually here.
Forever, Emily Dickinson said, is composed of nows. But how do you inhabit the now you are in? How do you stop the ghosts of all the other nows from getting in? How, in short, do you live?”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby