Absorbing Quotes

“The evening came to a close and the two women walked hand-in-hand back to the hut, the waves breaking gently on the beach, the stars out up above, a buzz in their heads from the wine and beer. As close to paradise as I could ever imagine, thought Dani.”
― Steven Decker, Time Chain

“The voices inside my head told me the blood was good, the blood could enrapture, the blood could turn me into a god.”
― Eli Wilde, My Unbeating Heart

“I would say I’m cautiously pessimistic about our chances.”
― Phil Hall, Murder O'clock

“Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon – your eye "sees" the story as well as reads it, its layout, its paragraphs and structure, and "remembers" what it just read because it's still there, on the page, simultaneously. If you want to, you can reread any line instantly; or linger; or speed up; or optically "flinch." Reading a series of tweets is more like looking through a narrow window from a train speeding through a landscape full of tunnels and bands of light and dark. Each tweet erases its predecessor.”
― David Mitchell

“Observe and learn from stronger and better people than yours instead of laughing and pulling legs of poor and weak than yours.”
― Prerak Trivedi

“I’m sitting in the aftermath, Fleur,
still absorbing what happened.
I don’t know every detail, just some.”
― Susan L. Marshall, Fleur of Yesterday

“We still talk a lot about ‘authentic’ cultures, but if by authentic’ we mean something that developed independently, and that consists of ancient local traditions free of external influences, then there are no authentic cultures left on earth.”
― Yuval Noah Harari

“When evaluating global happiness, it is wrong to count the happiness only
of the upper class, of Europeans or of men. Perhaps it is also wrong to
consider only the happiness of humans.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind