Status Updates From Blind Faith

“The key to escaping this man-made thing we call ‘reality’ is through the mind, through reason and imagination. I have discovered…books.”

“…the people around the table, who were concentrating. Trafford felt a thrill. Nobody concentrated, ever.”

“It’s a curse to have a mind if it is illegal to use it. It’s a curse to have intelligence if you are forced to cloak it in a lifetime of willful stupidity.”

“He liked sex as much as anyone, but people had children to raise, money to earn, vermin to kill, problems to deal with; it was impractical for sex to be the number-one priority every minute of the day How would the washing get done?”

“social pressure to be an obsessively sexual being was all-encompassing. Every advert, every song, every reality show seemed to be about almost nothing but sex. All marketing appeared to be based on the assumption that there were only two proper states for a person to be in, either 'up for it' or 'at it, and if they weren't one of those two things then something was very wrong.Trafford knew this was rubbish.”

“He was in love with everything that he did not know about her.”

Yes, YES, this is the one. You know that feeling when you’ve been reading a good book, and you’re out with friends trying to remind yourself it’s important to socialize, but you just can’t wait to get home to YOUR book ? 😍📚📙📕 This is that one. Engaging, insightful, and flows like poetry with the page-turning amusement of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.