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Book cover for The Adulterants
The word banister filled me with an ache I could not name. I had never lived across two floors in London. Newel post, I thought, with longing, as they reached the bottom step.
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Madeleine Ryan
“I worry that intimacy and tenderness are becoming impossible ideals, rather than lived experiences. Surviving on this planet right now seems to be more about figuring out how to withstand being violated and exploited than it is about cultivating fulfilling relationships with ourselves, and with others.”
Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

Madeleine Ryan
“People are obsessed with what they don't allow themselves to have, and then they become controlled by it. Forbidden fruit is everyone's main meal.”
Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

Madeleine Ryan
“It's important to resist the urge to put things we can't comprehend into cages and to try to make them dance for us.”
Madeleine Ryan, A Room Called Earth

Oliver Burkeman
“what you pay attention to will define, for you, what reality is.”
Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It

Oliver Burkeman
“The real problem isn’t planning. It’s that we take our plans to be something they aren’t. What we forget, or can’t bear to confront, is that, in the words of the American meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein, “a plan is just a thought.” We treat our plans as though they are a lasso, thrown from the present around the future, in order to bring it under our command. But all a plan is—all it could ever possibly be—is a present-moment statement of intent. It’s an expression of your current thoughts about how you’d ideally like to deploy your modest influence over the future. The future, of course, is under no obligation to comply.”
Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

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