“I suggest that we reimagine #FOMO as #NOMO, the necessity of missing out,”
― How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
― How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
“But remember that anyone who tells you you’re “too” anything is using the word because they are threatened by your capacity to grow, evolve and express your emotions.”
― Women Don't Owe You Pretty
― Women Don't Owe You Pretty
“Beauty work is labeled “self-care” to make it sound progressive”
― Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
― Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
“I’ve made my own hunger into a practice, made everyone who passes through my life subject to a close and inappropriate reading that occasionally finds its way, often insufficiently, into paint. And when I am alone with myself, this is what I am waiting for someone to do to me, with merciless, deliberate hands, to put me down onto the canvas so that when I’m gone, there will be a record, proof that I was here.”
― Luster
― Luster
“You must be taught to love me. Human beings must be taught to love
silence and darkness.”
― The Wild Iris
silence and darkness.”
― The Wild Iris
Olivia’s 2024 Year in Books
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