Amanda

“We forgot how greedy we are, but above all we forgot how weak we are. And now it’s crushing us.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Your moral feelings are attached to frames, to descriptions of reality rather than to reality itself. The message about the nature of framing is stark: framing should not be viewed as an intervention that masks or distorts an underlying preference. At least in this instance—and also in the problems of the Asian disease and of surgery versus radiation for lung cancer—there is no underlying preference that is masked or distorted by the frame. Our preferences are about framed problems, and our moral intuitions are about descriptions, not about substance.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“The writer had kept it up with monotonous and painful regularity.”
― James Siegel, Derailed

“When a story is being told, there's always a listener, stated or implied; and there is always a reason why the story is being told to that listener.”
― Margaret Atwood