Valerie Brett

“The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words

“I am happiest as a set of eyes, and my goal whenever I go into a movie or album or book is to lose myself in the story and find myself on the way out.”
― Tavi Gevinson

“Halley was brilliant. Here’s just one example of his use of lateral thinking, as discussed in John and Mary Gribbin’s book Out of the Shadow of a Giant: When asked to work out the acreage of land in every English county, Halley “took a large map of England, and cut out the largest complete circle he could from the map.” That circle equated to 69.33 miles in diameter. He then weighed both the circle and the complete map, concluding that since the map weighed four times more than the circle, the area of England was four times the area of the circle. His result was only 1 percent off from contemporary calculations.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“Facebook spent more on lobbying than oil giant Chevron or ExxonMobil and more than drug giant Pfizer or Roche.”
― Sheera Frenkel, An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination