Catherine Davis

“Of all the books on the shelf, just look what you’ve gone and bought. Give yourself a round of applause, even if you’re in public. I dare you. Actually I tell you what, as this would make me very happy: if you’re in public and see someone else reading this book, why don’t you applaud each other? What a lovely moment that would be. I advocate that as much as I advocate adults galloping, or people randomly wandering into an optician to try on the most unflattering and amusing glasses for no good reason. It’s what I call ‘making your own fun’. Because you have to, really, don’t you? As, let’s face it; life does have a tendency to throw up difficulties, depressions, moments of boredom, loneliness or grind. I don’t know. Life, eh?”
― Miranda Hart, Is It Just Me?

“To erase the possibility of empathy is to erase the possibility of understanding.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“We all got used to living in the cloud of unknowing.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“American culture in particular has instilled in us the bizarre notion that to ask for help amounts to an admission of failure.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help