Frank Hestvik

“I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“By what psychoanalyst friends tell me, in the field of the emotional subconscious, the emotional resistances to be overcome are no longer the ones most people felt in Freud's [..] day. The moralizing respectability and the fear of sex evidenced in Freud's day no longer exist. I am told that today's resistances come in the form of summary, seemingly pitiless and unrelenting "wild" self-analyses offered up by those who claim to have understood "everything" about themselves.”
― Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds

“Feeling like what, Cassandra Mortmain? Flat? Depressed? Empty? If so, why, pray?

I thought if I made myself write I should find out what is wrong with me, but I haven't, so far. Unless — could I possibly be jealous of Rose?

I will pause and search my innermost soul . . .

I have searched it for a solid five minutes. And I swear I am not jealous of Rose; [..]”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle