“Need can blossom into all the compensations it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it?”
― Housekeeping
― Housekeeping
“Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.”
― ALife at WorkThe Joy of Discovering What You Were Born to Do
― ALife at WorkThe Joy of Discovering What You Were Born to Do
“Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“I realize it's commonplace for parents to say to their child sternly, 'I love you, but I don't always like you.' But what kind of love is that? It seems to me that comes down to, 'I'm not oblivious to you - that is, you can still hurt my feelings - but I can't stand having you around.' Who wants to be loved like that? Given a choice, I might skip the deep blood tie and settle for being liked. I wonder if wouldn't have been more moved if my own mother had taken me in her arms and said, 'I like you.' I wonder if just enjoying your kid's company isn't more important.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“Our fears are informed by history and economics, by social power and stigma, by myths and nightmares. And as with other strongly held beliefs, our fears are dear to us. When we encounter information that contradicts our beliefs, as Slovic found in one of his studies, we tend to doubt the information, not ourselves.”
― On Immunity: An Inoculation
― On Immunity: An Inoculation
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