Kelli

“While the wealthy are no more likely to be born stupid than the poor, a wealthy upbringing compounds stupidity while a hardscrabble childhood dilutes it, if only for Darwinian reasons. This is why the elite need a prophylactic barrier of shitty state schools, to prevent the clever kids from the working-class post codes ousting them from the Enclave of Privilege.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“That the things in life which don't go to plan are usually more important, more formative, in the long run, than the things that do”
― Maggie O'Farrell, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death

“I swam in dangerous waters, both metaphorically and literally.
It was not so much that I didn't value my existence but more that I had an insatiable desire to push myself to embrace all that it could offer.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

“Foreign experiences increase both cognitive flexibility and depth and integrativeness of thought,”
― Maggie O'Farrell, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death