M.L. Thanisa Choombala

“With a kind of amazed smile, she replied: What would you like me to do, fall on my knees and beg you not to leave?”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Your brain waits for the slowest bit of stimulus to be processed, then reorders the neural inputs correctly, and lets you experience them together, as a simultaneous event—about half a second after what actually happened. We think we’re perceiving the world directly and immediately, but everything we experience is this carefully edited, tape-delayed reconstruction.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“guess you could say the old ways of being together were wrong—they were!—and that we didn’t want to repeat old mistakes—we didn’t. But when we tore down what confined us, what did we have in mind to replace it?”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“I found it impossible to imagine ever feeling again as I had apparently once felt about rain or flowers.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You