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“Q: Why do humans like applause? A: I suspect it is because we are at a disadvantage compared with much of the animal kingdom. We lack sharp teeth or claws. We are not the biggest or the fastest. And we evolved in an environment where we lived nomadically and were exposed daily to the terrifying forces of nature. Accordingly, we banded together in tight-knit groups to better protect ourselves. We built fires and told stories to make the dark nights pass by. Applause may be a way for us to make our weak hands sound thunderous.”
― Weather
― Weather
“It is easy to mourn the lives we aren’t living. Easy to wish we’d developed other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we’d worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“To be part of nature was to be part of the will to live.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“In the first class I ever took with Sylvia, she told us about assortative mating. Meaning like with like—depressive with depressive. The problem with assortative mating, she said, is that it feels perfectly correct when you do it. Like a key fitting into a lock and opening a door. The question being: Is this really the room you want to spend your life in?”
― Weather
― Weather
“That room has been static for me so long:
an emptiness. a void. a silence
containing an unheard story
ready for me to unlock.
Let there be plot.”
― Dearly
an emptiness. a void. a silence
containing an unheard story
ready for me to unlock.
Let there be plot.”
― Dearly
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