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“Reality is something that is co-authored,’ the woman says. ‘It makes sense that you would begin to find this disturbing. When someone says that something is not what you think of it as, it can cause slight tremors in the brain, variations in brain activity, and subconscious doubts begin to emerge. Why do you think people experience spiritual awakenings? It’s because the people around us are engaged. The frenzy is a charge that’s contagious.’ ‘Are you saying my mother is contagious?’ ‘No, I’m not. Though maybe I am, in a sense. We actively make memories, you know. And we make them together. We remake memories, too, in the image of what other people remember.’ ‘The doctor says my mother has become unreliable.’ ‘We are all unreliable. The past seems to have a vigour that the present does not.”
― Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar

“Philosophy starts nowhere else but with wondering.”
― Plato, Theaetetus

“It was a risk, to love someone. To do so with the full knowledge that they'd leave someday. Then let go of them, when they did.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“immigrants are artists because they create a life, a future, from nothing but a dream.”
― Reyna Grande, A Dream Called Home