Hamish

“Such a look of complete indifference to his own external appearance, so haughty a reliance on the power of other qualities - extrinsic or adventitious - to atone for the lack of mere personal attractiveness, that in looking at him, one inevitably shared the indifference and even in a blind, imperfect sense put faith in the confidence.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“There are time limits in life that we can't postpone, and that's exactly why we should give ourselves deadlines. It's good practice. For the big one.”
― captain disillusion

“I was never one of those student who thought it was great to see their teaches outside of school, in their normal clothes, living their normal life like a normal person. I actually preferred to keep them as they were: smartly dressed and in charge, maybe even as role models. What I definitely did not want to do was see them getting smashed in Derby town center, smiling at women, and then getting pissy when the women didn't smile back, reminding me that none of the adults in my life really know what they're doing and that I too will never really figure anything out.”
― James Acaster, James Acaster's Classic Scrapes

“Prior to my breakdown I went through a 5 week manic phase, with increasing mental excitation, decreasing sleep, and a near certainty that I wa sthe first person to actually understand what Ludwig Wittgenstein was actually saying.”
― Robert Trivers, Wild Life: Adventures of an Evolutionary Biologist