Euphoria

by Lily King

felt my loneliness bulge out of me like a goiter, and I wasn’t sure how to hide it from them.

Lamarck’s inheritance theory that characteristics acquired after birth can be passed on.

‘Everyone else is dead so she seems to have a great deal of energy for me.’

‘Do you have a favorite part of all this?’ she asked.

It’s a delusion—you’ve only been there eight weeks—and it’s followed by the complete despair of ever understanding anything. But at that moment the place feels entirely yours. It’s the briefest, purest euphoria.’

our perspective can have an enormous wingspan, if we give it the freedom to unfurl.

I was ashamed to feel such bald need for these near strangers, and as I sat there in the dark I trained my mind back to my work, though if there was a quicker way back to suicidal thoughts,