Ayo > Recent Status Updates

“When we ask the question “who am I?” What we are really asking often is “who am I to other people?””

🎯

“Online we are exposed to a world that is effectively a marketplace masquerading as a social space.”

❤️🎯

“You have to have a prison before you can have prisoners. You have to make room for criminals before you can have criminals.”

❤️

Oh she’s taking it through out this book. The mental health is at an all time low and the trauma is high in this one. Oh she’s spiraling 😩

“It was the era of insurmountable information where the problem was not insufficient language but far too much of it. Only the loudest are heard and what is the fate of facts then? What is the fate of reality when all manner of counterfeit narratives sweep over the people in ridiculous noise? “

❤️🥰

“You’ll believe anything when you need comfort.”

🎯

“As we learn a new language, we become a different person.

As we access different linguistic structures, our personality shifts to reflect the different concepts available to us through different words. But also because of the new company we keep in a new language . . .”

So true!!! 🎯❤️

“A tree is never just a tree. A tree is always a symbol. On its own a tree is a symbol and the forest is wood and not a symbol.”

❤️

Okay this book. I have so many thoughts. The protagonist is going through it and taking it. Chile 🤣

“He said this was a creation of a country.

No. This was a country.

A country is a constant struggle.”

❤️🎯😍

“Chasing a man is an invitation for them to run in the opposite direction.”

🎯

My first Tia!!! I really enjoyed this one. So fun😆 Believe in love again y’all 🥰 A good break from my usual “literary very serious fiction”. More of this please 😍😆❤️

“You and I go over the past too much. . . If nothing else, it made the past seem like a stationary train accessible from the platform of the present as if you can choose what carriage to enter.

Nothing in memory ever made itself so available.”

Beautiful!!! 😍 ❤️🥰

I LOVED so many things about this strange book. Never read anything like this before!!!

“You can love all you want, possess the world, allow it to possess you. There are no returns from this strategy except what’s immediate. The light will often fall interestingly on the sea for instance and you’ve been lucky with that. But some other things will never happen. “

I love how beautiful the resolve of this dark, bleak, nihilistic book is ❤️😍🥰

“How can you misplace a continent?”

😍❤️😍

Harrison does some interesting things with PoVs in this book I haven’t seen any writer done explicitly. He creates distance and closeness with each 3rd person perspective in the book using pronouns, rigid naming (‘the driver’ instead of ‘it’) and last or first name(Phillip or Tennent), whichever suffices.

It’s confusing but so clever!!! 🔥

“Believe all you like. That at some level unavailable to you, an organizing principle exists . You will never have any evidence of that.”

I NEED to read this book again!!! I’m WOWED!!! How do you even come up with this as a writer??? 😍❤️🥰

“So what is happening? Are we watching a film the universe is showing itself?”

❤️

“You say we are suspended in this new catastrophe. Held in suspension. It’s ongoing and unresolved. It never ends.

The nature of the catastrophe is that it has no nature, not for us. It’s permanent.”

❤️

“We were, all of us, at least in the beginning, thrust back inside ourselves by circumstance, back into the refuge of our humanity.

Because we thought there couldn’t be something outside it. . . “

❤️

This is the classic “I wish I wrote that line” book 😆

“Some people missed one thing from the pre-disaster world. Some people another. Everyone had their favorite.”

❤️

“You can’t waste food just because it’s gone cold.”

This must be one of the most clinically written books I’ve read in a while. And the writing works here.

It reads like a research report on the end of the world. A very strange book in a good way. I totally understand why it made the Booker list. 😃

“Since the crisis everyone’s life has been full of moments like this. It has been a long time since anyone can make sense of anything.”

Without offering spoilers -so I start this book and something literally ABSURD happens in the opening chapters. I had to re-read like 6 times. With that event, Harrison didn’t have to tell me the world in this book is morally different from the world I am use to.

GENIUS!!!

“If you don’t watch out, show business will kill you in pieces. And the audience will love every minute of it.”

🎯

“The longer women go without sex, the less we need it. We stop even missing it. That’s the law of sexual physics.”

“She wondered if sexuality is like a muscle. If you don’t use it, it atrophies.”

🎯

“I never pictured my soulmate being white. Recession indicator. “


Tia PLEASE!!! Lmao!!!🤣🤣🤣😍

“The right connection can bridge hearts through time and space. The right connection can change the world.”

Omg!!! This is such a cute and fun book 😍😃🥰

“Savvy women know that wisdom sometimes comes in unconventional packages.”

🎯

“The thing we need most is relationships.

The thing we suck at most is relationships.”

🎯

“The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other or the self.

The ultimate touchstone is witness - the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another.

To have walked with them and to have believed in them.”

😍❤️🥰

“The worst sin to our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them. That’s the essence of inhumanity”

❤️

“On social media you get the illusion of social contact.

Stimulation replaces intimacy.

There’s judgement everywhere and understanding no where.”

❤️

“Wise people don’t just possess information.

They possess a compassionate understanding of other people.

They know about life”

❤️

“Wishes would always try to trick you. So you have to say what you want without leaving nothing out down to every little itty bitty thing.”

🎯