Rosie

“For so long I was afraid to stay close to anybody because I had so much anger and confusion inside me. I knew that I couldn’t let anyone into my life until all that had passed. The problem I could never solve was how to relate to people in the meantime. Other people’s love is frightening when you’re suffering. It’s overwhelming. When you’re consumed with the effort of processing internal pain, it becomes impossible to do anything else. It’s like holding your breath under water: you realise that you need to breathe but if you breathe at the wrong time, you drown.”
― Ronan Hession, Panenka

“The most profound change is not just that AI replaces the mind.

It is that it introduces a new form of labor into the world with a completely different physical basis.

This is the Metabolic Rift.”
― Emad Mostaque, The Last Economy: A Guide to the Age of Intelligent Economics

“The first smile of the day was important. It determined how the dozens of others that day would turn out.”
― Yeon Somin, The Healing Season of Pottery

“Don't you think that's a disease of the contemporary age? It feels like these days our value is determined by how much effort we make from day to day. That matters even more than our results. After a while, the concept of effort starts to become mixed up with things feeling difficult, and then you reach the point where the person seen as the most admirable is the one suffering the most. I think that's the reason people are so vicious towards Manako Kajii. She refuses to live that life, refuses to suffer.”
― Asako Yuzuki, Butter