Rebecca Lee

“But mostly there was little to report, just the day-to-day goings-on of countless people working and living and aging and falling in and out of love, as is the case everywhere, and so not deemed worthy of headline billing or thought to be of much interest to anyone but those directly involved.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.”
― Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

“Ultimately, I argue for a view of the self and of identity that is the opposite of the personal brand: an unstable, shapeshifting thing determined by interactions with others and with different kinds of places.”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

“We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people’s lives.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance