Jamie

“But look at all those neurons in the arms!” he said. “They may have a radically different style of psychological organization from us. Perhaps in octopus we see intelligence without a centralized self. If you have the design of an octopus,” Peter asked, “is there a sense of self at all, a center of experience? If not, that involves imagining something so different from us it might be impossible to think of.”
― Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

“She was a waterfall of apologies. She was drowning in herself.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“To dive beneath the surface feels like entering the Earth’s vast, dreaming subconscious.”
― Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

“From them, I learned that love was something you had to scramble to keep. It could be revoked at any minute, for reasons that you couldn’t understand, that you couldn’t control. The kind of love I grew up with was scary to need, and painful to feel. If I didn’t have that uneasy ache, that prickly anxiety around someone, how would I know it was love?”
― Demi Moore, Inside Out