Deborah Carr

“Everybody pretends that you only die once. But that’s not true. You can die to a thousand possible futures in the course of a single, stupid life.”
― Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human:

“the prison wasn’t the place, but the perspective.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Memory, it turns out, is often more a reconstruction than a reproduction.”
― Joseph T. Hallinan, Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average

“hope impedes adaptation.” In other words, if you're stuck with something, you learn to live with it. And the sooner you learn to live with it, the happier you will be.”
― Joseph T. Hallinan, Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average