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“We need people in our lives who don’t expect us to be anything but what we are”
Was it possible to recognize that you were the bad guy in a story?
She was not old, yet she looked like she’d lived thousands of lifetimes and had felt each of them in her bones.
Wasn’t that funny? How one person’s earthquake went undetected by someone who should have felt the shaking the most?
“Pareidolia,” Gretchen said easily, snagging the last pierogi without shame. “That’s a fancy word for humans’ tendency to find significance in something where there is none. Like kids finding shapes in clouds. We do that a lot. And that technically is a subset of apophenia, which is the tendency to find connections where they don’t exist.”
Life wasn’t always about making the right choices. Sometimes it was about making the wrong ones just to see what would happen.
“Humans are terrible creatures held together by the illusion of civility,”
