Meli

“Critics of acceleration maintain that accelerating patterns of life are the reason for a commonly voiced sense of unease--the feeling that one is not "really" living. Everything is done all at once, faster and faster, yet no personal balance or meaning can be found. This implies the loss of contact with one's own self. We also no longer feel "at home" with ourselves and find it difficult to persist in any given activity because we are available at every moment; the phone always rings at the worst possible time.”
― Marc Wittmann, Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time

“They are locked in boxes the size of themselves. A body-box, like a coffin, but alive, like a home. The children, the veal, they stand very still because tenderness depends on how little the world touches you. To stay tender, the weight of your life cannot lean on your bones.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Then he took the sword in both hands and raised it—and Gawain’s posture took on an unmistakable grandeur.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

“Love is a drug made in the brain to enable humans to mate. It’s simply an anesthetic. In other words, it’s an illusion to prettify the painful mating act, to reduce the suffering and disgust of the act.”
― Sayaka Murata, Earthlings