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Daisy’s self-proclaimed life motto was “Break Hearts, Not Promises.”
Mine is "Life is too short"
“And prisons have power-thirsty, corrupt guards, just like schools have teachers.”
He accelerated with the gentle serenity of the Buddhist Zen master who knows nothing really needs to be done quickly,
We are about to live the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.”
“Nobody complains about male humans hooking up with female Twi’leks! Because of course men can choose whatever they want to bone. But a human woman falling in love with a Wookiee, God forbid.
“I want to share something Virginia Woolf wrote: ‘English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache. . . . The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.’ And we’re such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name.
Shit. It’s happening. You’re sweating now. She can tell. Should you tell her? She’s a doctor. Maybe you should tell her. “My stomach hurts a little,” I said. “You don’t have C. diff,” she answered.
It seemed to me that one of the defining features of parents is that they don’t get paid to love you.
a lot of those schools charge you just to apply, so we have to be selective. The whole process is rigged, from start to finish. They make you pay to find out you can’t afford to go.
So often English glorifies the human—we are whos, other animals are thats—but English puts us beneath the stars, at least.
Our hearts were broken in the same places. That’s something like love, but maybe not quite the thing itself.
“Mammal brains receive a constant stream of interoceptive input from the GI tract, which combines with other interoceptive information from within the body and contextual information from the environment before sending an integrated response to target cells within the GI tract through what is commonly called the ‘gut-brain informational axis’ but might be better described as the ‘gut-brain informational cycle.’”
“Jesus Christ, Holmesy, you can sure hold a grudge against yourself. You are my favorite person. I want to be buried next to you. We’ll have a shared tombstone. It’ll read, ‘Holmesy and Daisy: They did everything together, except the nasty.’
an unwanted thought was like a car driving past you when you’re standing on the side of the road, and I told myself I didn’t have to get into that car, that my moment of choice was not whether to have the thought, but whether to be carried away by it.
