Dina Khatib’s Reviews > An Absolutely Remarkable Thing > Status Update

“As time somehow kept moving, the various sizes of various concerns were starting to seem less relevant.”

“You know how when you’re trying to get some stuff out of your car and there’s, like, one too many things to bring them all in one trip?

Well, that’s the way my mind felt at that moment. Except instead of one too many world-shattering, life-altering unpleasantnesses, there were like five too many to hang on to.”

“Human beings are terrible at accepting uncertainty, so when we’re ignorant, we make assumptions based on how we imagine the world. And our guess is so obviously correct that other guesses seem, at best, willful ignorance—at worst, an attack.”

“It’s so much easier for people to get excited about this liking something than agreeing to like it.”

“The only thing I was getting used to was pretending like I was getting used to it.”

“When you get stuck fighting small battles, it makes you small.”

“And, of course, I had no idea of this then, but by engaging with him, I was affirming him”

“These words came out like old, warm soda.”

“Knowing something is a bad idea does not always decrease the odds that you will do it.”

“I’m not much older now than I was then, but in a lot of ways, obviously, I’m a different person. So it is easy for me to recognize that I made some good decisions and some bad ones.”