Nicole

“Are you scared?’ asked Mr. Ibis.
‘Not really.’
‘Well, try to cultivate the emotions of true awe and spiritual terror, as we walk. They are the appropriate feelings for the situation at hand.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“The queen smiled as she lay her head upon the pillow. When I kissed her cheek, I could taste the salt of her tears.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“I’m suggesting that we protect our spaces and our time for non-instrumental, noncommercial activity and thought, for maintenance, for care, for conviviality. And I’m suggesting that we fiercely protect our human animality against all technologies that actively ignore and disdain the body, the bodies of other beings, and the body of the landscape that we inhabit.”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy