Tabitha

“There’s a Susan Sontag book called Regarding the Pain of Others, which Frank made me read — there’s a bit where Sontag talks about how when people see terrible things happen, they used to say it felt like a dream, but now they say it feels like a movie. Movies have supplanted dreams in the popular consciousness, and have become our benchmark for the unreal, and the almost real. Today has been a movie, playing on an old, warped videotape.”
― Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

“I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

“We enshrine things to memory very differently than we experience them in real time. The psychologist Daniel Kahneman has coined a couple of terms to make the distinction. He talks about the "experiencing self" versus the "remembering self.”
― Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married