kinsey

“Will the world end in darkness because it is foretold? Or because there will be those who believe it so strongly they will make it so?”
― Patrick Ness, And the Ocean Was Our Sky

“They sleep like children, mouths open, cheeks flushed. Breathing as rhythmic as swells on a sea. No longer allowed in the rooms, their mothers and fathers watch them through double-paned glass. Isolation - that's what the doctors call it: the separation of the sick from the well. But isn't every sleep a kind of isolation? When else are we so alone?”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“The mother seems relieved to have heard that this affliction might be psychological, as if the failings of the mind are any less destructive than those of the body.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“It’s what you’re reading that matters, and how you’re reading it, not the speed with which you’re getting through it. Reading is supposed to be about the encounter with other minds, not an opportunity to return to the endlessly appealing subject of Me.”
― Alan Jacobs, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction