Andrea

“the gap between the poetry she wrote and the poetry she contained was, for Natalie, something unsolvable.”
― Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman

“At each moment the state of self is constructed, from the ground up,” writes Antonio Damasio. “It is an evanescent reference state, so continuously and consistently reconstructed that the owner never knows it is being remade unless something goes wrong with the remaking.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It

“they murder us for the crime of their imaginations”
― Danez Smith, Homie

“It was a night in late August, a night that rekindled in rattling windows and tree branch palsy that lost recollection of autumn, misplaced for the succession of bright summer distractions, trapped heat in small rooms and sweaty underarms.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist