Adam

“I sighed against her. "I know my fears are not rational," I said with apology, "but feel them nonetheless.

"Rationality," Mossa said, "is a tool; and, like any other, it is fallible, and only of use in some circumstances.”
― Malka Ann Older, The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles

“It was obvious now why the Holoh use the image of a jewel to discuss the fallen, for what else, famously, do city lights look like? Look at any set phrase long enough, and it’ll shiver into focus; you’ll see its original maker, in his tiny workshop, portentously pairing a jewel with a city, patching his threadbare darkness with velvet.”
― Isaac Fellman, The Breath of the Sun

“We’ve all heard that cliché that we should follow our passions. But I prefer the author and thinker Elizabeth Gilbert's philosophy that it's our curiosity we should listen to. She argues that so many people suppress their curiosity with reason and logic, but that if you really tune into that curiosity, that's when things start to feel right. When life gets interesting — and carries on being creative.”
― Mary Portas, I Shop, Therefore I Am: The '90s, Harvey Nicks, and Me

“Everyone says nostalgia is about suffering, because of the Greek 'algos' meaning pain, but Jamie prefers to think of the algia in ‘nostalgia’ as coming from algae. The longing for lost people and places grows at the bottom of your soul, brackish and salty, clogging everything with its endless fronds. Nostalgic people can never want anything cleanly.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, Lessons in Magic and Disaster