Matt

“Ethan thinks often of that conversation, mostly when he’s lying awake in bed at night and everyone else is asleep, and his life screaming past at the speed of light—the weight of bills and the future and his prior failings and all these moments he’s missing—all the lost joy—perched like a boulder on his chest.”
― Blake Crouch, Pines: Wayward Pines: 1

“That’s what I dislike most of all in people—cold irony. It’s a very cowardly attitude to mock or belittle everything, never be committed to anything, not feel tied to anything. Like an impotent man who can’t experience pleasure himself, but will do all he can to ruin it for others.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“So when I really pause to consider what I want for my child, for your child, and for the children all around us, I want them to have the tools to navigate and process the inevitable hard stuff so they’re able to live a life that feels connected, compassionate, and curious. I want them to understand their emotions and develop the skills and know-how to navigate their feelings in a healthy and secure way. In other words, I want them to be emotionally intelligent.”
― Alyssa Blask Campbell, Tiny Humans, Big Emotions: How to Navigate Tantrums, Meltdowns, and Defiance to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children

“Space and time are compared to a family tree; they do not exist in themselves but as a system of relationships between the objects of which they consist. In a way, it is like a network of relations, since the network itself does not exist without its relations and the relations are what create the concept of a network.”
― Alon Halperin, The Network of Time: Understanding Time & Reality through Philosophy, History and Physics