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I’m not gonna lie, this book is genuinely stressing me out. Give her her damn baby.

If she says hot jalapeño rage one more time

I am LOVING this book rn.

“She was the messenger and also the message”
I love the way she writes.

The audiobook has montage music between chapters and it’s funny every time it plays. This book is not what I expected it to be! I’m not sure I love the way it’s written but it is communicating a lot of great morals and cool intuition things.

“I looked out the window at the station. I had the sense that something in my life had ended, my image of myself as a whole or normal person maybe. I realized my life would be full of mundane physical suffering, and that there was nothing special about it. Suffering wouldn’t make me sexual, and pretending not to suffer wouldn’t make me special. Talking about it would not transform the suffering.”

“She made us all laugh a lot, but in the same way you might make someone eat something when they don’t fully want to eat it.”

“Writing does not resurrect. It buries.”

“Sometimes it seems the universe wants to be noticed.”

Yeah I’m not really into this

Loving it!

Her perspective is so self serving and judge-mental I hate it and love it at the same time.

“That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.”

“if definitive proof emerges that we’re living in a simulation, the correct response to that news will be So what. A life lived in a simulation is still a life.”

“I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have teased the end of the world.”

“And I want to do that—to prove that the most ordinary thing about human beings is not violence or greed but love and care. To prove it to whom, I wonder. Myself, maybe.”

“But increasingly I think it’s because, in one way or another, they do believe in God—they believe in the God that is deep buried principle of goodness and love underneath everything. Goodness regardless of reward, regardless of our own desires, regardless of whether anyone is watching or anyone will know.”

“What do we have now? Instead? Nothing. And we hate people for making mistakes so much more than we love them for doing good that the easiest way to live is to do nothing, say nothing, and love no one.”

“I suppose I was seeing but not looking—the visual world just came to me flat, like a catalogue of information.”

“But this sense of the continuous present is no longer a feature of our lives. The present has become discontinuous. Each day, even each hour of each day, replaces and makes irrelevant the time before, and the events of our lives make sense only in relation to a perpetually updating timeline of news content… There is no longer a neutral setting. There is only the timeline.”