“She rarely talked, and when she did, it was only about books.”
Peter Swanson, Eight Perfect Murders
“I don’t think people understand how stressful it is to explain what’s going on in your head when you don’t even understand it yourself.”
— Sara Quin
貴船/雨上がり ~ Masayuki Nakamura
Winter
Acknowledging that “critical thinking” means “thinking about things in a thorough way from different perspectives” and not “finding every flaw in a thing and fixating on it until all the joy is gone” is so liberating.
It’s supposed to be about intellectual curiosity, not about finding ways to devalue things that aren’t perfect or that we personally dislike.
something every reader has experienced at least once
“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
mount auburn cemetery