Kindle Notes & Highlights
people who talk but don’t hear; people who speak relentlessly but say very little.
The most intelligent, well-balanced people get drawn into this same trap: this race to make money and to have, have, have, as though consumption is the key to success and ownership is the measure of a happy life.
that time is the thing that makes you powerful, while you still have enough of it.
Life entangles people in all its day-to-day complications. It becomes easy to lose yourself, and when losing yourself is easy, losing someone else is inevitable.
It’s easier for us both this way: she doesn’t have to witness my neuroses, and I don’t have to be embarrassed by their exposure.
Lost. It has always seemed a strange word to use to describe a death. It suggests a carelessness and, in a sense, a kind of blame, as though had you been more careful, the loss might not have been incurred at all.
