Chris

“having to sell your time to live, having to choose the lesser of two evils, having to say something while believing in another, having to build yourself up while starved of substantive connection, having to work while the sky is red outside, and having to ignore everything and everyone whom, in your heart of hearts, it is killing you to ignore”
― Jenny Odell, Saving Time

“Stomach-sleepers like me were in retreat from reality, given to dark perception and the meditative arts. This”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“As Carole McGranahan writes, “To refuse is to say no. But, no, it is not just that. To refuse can be generative and strategic, a deliberate move toward one thing, belief, practice, or community and away from another. Refusals illuminate limits and possibilities, especially but not only of the state and other institutions.”76 Refusal may start in you but cannot end with you.”
― Jenny Odell, Saving Time

“The moment you step into a landscape it becomes another one.”
― M. John Harrison, Climbers