Aissele

“But people—the ordinary, the decent and basically honest—couldn’t get through the day without that one indispensable bit of programming that allowed you to say one thing and mean, feel, even do, another.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“As far as I can see, this is a problem with living in the twenty-first century. Many of us have every material thing we need, so the job of marketing is now to tie the economy to our emotions, to make us feel like we need more by making us want things we never needed before. We are made to feel poor on thirty thousand pounds a year. To feel poorly travelled if we have been to only ten other countries. To feel too old if we have a wrinkle. To feel ugly if we aren’t photoshopped and filtered.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“the smile spread over her face like a time-lapse video he had once seen in a high school physics class of a rose in bloom.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“When you die the last thing you want is for your death to leak out and infect those left behind, for those loved ones to become a kind of living dead. And yet, inevitably, that often happens. It has happened to me.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time