Gabriel

“Where there are wars, there will be crows, the carrion-fanciers. And ravens too, the warbirds, the eyeball gourmands. And vultures, the holy birds of yore, old connoisseurs of rot.”
― Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam

“Society tends to underestimate the harm caused by bad sleep and many of us subject ourselves to avoidable harm by routinely going to bed late, getting up early, and having low-quality sleep in between. Just as those in extreme environments cope better when they get good sleep, most of us would feel better if we slept better.”
― Emma Barrett, Extreme: Why some people thrive at the limits

“As the coward sees danger where there is, practically speaking, none, the reckless man does not see it where it actually exists…The really brave man does not overlook the danger. He does not let his mind dwell upon it; but if it exists he knows just what it is”
― Emma Barrett, Extreme: Why some people thrive at the limits

“America’s great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively, to a body like mine, and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end.”
― Karen Russell, Sleep Donation