Donna

“For a flawed soul yearns to be healed: in secular times, we require the stranger to complete us, where we lack the strength to complete ourselves.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The Tattooed Girl: A Novel

“Humans are insensitive to nepetalactone, a chemical produced by the catnip plant that is intensely irritating to mosquitoes.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

“This skin, this hair, all this outside stuff. It isn’t me. It’s just my package. It’s like the wrapper around the sweet; it isn’t the sweet itself. What we really are is all inside the package. All our feelings. All our good moods and bad moods. All our ideas, our cleverness, our love, that’s what a person really is.”
― Colin Cotterill, The Coroner's Lunch

“Our lenses typically block out UV, but people who have lost their lenses to surgeries or accidents can perceive UV as whitish blue. This happened to the painter Claude Monet, who lost his left lens at the age of 82. He began seeing the UV light that reflects off water lilies, and started painting them as whitish blue instead of white.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us