Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

by Lulu Miller

David Starr Jordan

Tim Wilson, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, was so bowled over by how small adjustments in narrative could change a life that he wrote a whole book, called Redirect,

baking soda and herbal cascara capsules to help with digestion.

Its potential for growth, on the other hand, he claimed lay in its “public school.… It teaches the lesson of personal usefulness, of friendship across race lines, of equality before law… this is his source of power.”

And, mind bogglingly, approximately a third of all Puerto Rican women were sterilized by the US government between 1933 and 1968.

the environment—which so desperately needs our affection.

“Are you that busy?!” she groaned. “Are you that beholden to the cult of overwork that you need to communicate that you do not even have those four milliseconds to spare?”

my measly brain could have never dreamt up something as infinitely intoxicating as her.