Phillipa

“I’m here because they ain’t made a computer yet that won’t do something stupid one time out of a hundred trillion. Seems like good odds, but when computers are doing trillions of things a day, that means a whole lot of stupid.”
― Hugh Howey, Little Noises

“If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.”
― Regina Brett

“Parents should accept all the variations that children come in. If children feel accepted by their parents and have the freedom to express themselves in ways that feel natural to them, they are much less likely to be depressed. That should be more important than fitting neatly into a box.”
― Christia Spears Brown, Parenting Beyond Pink & Blue: How to Raise Your Kids Free of Gender Stereotypes

“And so the picture that I showed her that Sunday, a picture I'd seen countless times since I was a boy, brought home to me for the first time the strangeness of my relationship to the people I was interviewing, people who were rich in memories but poor in keepsakes, whereas I was so rich in the keepsakes but had no memories to go with them.”
― Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million