Status Updates From Wetter

había olvidado lo mucho que odiaba este libro (me lo estoy volviendo a empezar porque no retuve nada y ahora entiendo el porqué)

"A visitor asked the old monks at Mount Athos what they did all day and was told: We have died and we are in love with everything."

"They say people who are lost will walk trancelike past their own search parties. Maybe I saw you.
Maybe I passed you on my street. How will I know you? Trust me, you'll say."

"If you think you are lost: beware bending the map. Don't say maybe it was a pond, not a lake; maybe the stream flowed east, not west. Leave a trail as you go. Try to mark trees."

"I wanted every day to be like this, to begin in shame and fear and end in glorious reassurance."

"Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I feel slightly less dread,
When I am with you."

"It is important to be on the alert for "the decisive moment," says the man next to me who is talking to his date. I agree. The only difference is that he is talking about twentieth-century photography and I am talking about twenty-first-century everything."

"Instead of saying that life is suffering, they might say that life is tolerable. As in just barely."

"No more campaigning, no more fund-raising, no more obligatory notes of hope. Already things she worked on for years have been swept away with the stroke of a pen. All she wants now is to go somewhere quiet and dark, she says."

"Sudden alliances, my brother calls them. I have to be careful. My heart is prodigal."

"When I was younger, I sometimes knew why a man was staring at me, but these days it's often no more than a lapse in memory."

"Good people all around, making plans, assisting-so why do I feel so embarrassed?"

"She tells me that she feels like she is in a car, trying to accelerate. Some people she works with are trying to get in the car. Some are throwing themselves in front of it to prevent her from leaving."

"Later, I keep thinking about those people you read about in the paper, the ones who are discovered by animal protection services. They live in a studio apartment, go to work every day-their neighbors don't notice a thing-but when they break down the door, there's an alligator or a boa constrictor in there. Something that could kill them."

"But still, everyone I know is trying to sleep less. Insomnia as a badge of honor. Proof that you are paying attention."

"suffering = pain + resistance."

sounds about right