Paula

“Este escrutinio permanente en el que vivimos hoy es una fuente inagotable de ansiedad: en la carrera del bienestar, todos creemos que vamos perdiendo. (...) Estoy cansada pero además de estarlo siento culpa por estar cansada. El relato de la salud y el bienestar como caminos hacia una mejoría infinita viene a paliar la ansiedad que nos produce la ausencia de un orden moral compartido entre todos, la incertidumbre y el vacío que nos dejó la caída de los grandes relatos”
― Tamara Tenenbaum, El fin del amor: querer y coger

“Of course, we can't visit every place or meet every person or do every job, yet most of what we'd feel in any life is still available. We don't have to play every game to know what winning feels like. We don't have to hear every piece of music in the world to understand music. We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter and fear and pain are universal currencies. We just have to close our eyes and savour the taste of the drink in front of us and listen to the song as it plays. We are as completely and utterly alive as we are in any other life and have access to the same emotional spectrum.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Want,’ she told her, in a measured tone, ‘is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library