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Body Electric: The Hidden Health Costs of the Digital Age and New Science to Reclaim Your Well-Being

by Manoush Zomorodi

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""We've built our lives around sitting and looking at screens.

F that."" — Jun 10, 2026 01:30PM

Jun 08, 2026 10:33AM

“She realized she'd been thinking for years that she would not truly be pleased until she'd checked off this last achievement on her list, but one of the dangers of such thinking is that the event one hopes for never quite lives up to the expectation.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, The Troupe

tags: expectations, hope

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“Narrators may go where they please.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home

tags: narrators, writing

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“So, what you're saying is, just because a warrior is a woman doesn't mean they yhave to wear a chain mail bikini? Like, they could wear...real armor?”
― Jeremy Whitley, Princeless, Vol. 1: Save Yourself

tags: feminism, strong-female-characters, women

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“No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home

tags: belonging, children, fitting-in

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“The real world. The very notion is absurd. Worlds and everything in them are made real by the stories that inhabit them.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard

tags: books, imagination, reality, stories

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