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orbitofrontal cortex + periaqueductal grey + dopamine + oxytocin… ya this is probably not what you'd consider light reading b4 bed lol

planning fallacy is so real rn it hurts

“I have been idle. I have let things slip. It must stop!”

I am one chapter away from where I wanna be wooooo

"I told him many things that he would never have found out by himself; but he never repaid me in like kind. I cannot remember that he ever told me anything. And he got more and more like that; his face, as I remember it - I have not seen it for many a day - became like windows in a stone wall: windows with shutters inside."

i know what documentary i'm going to watch once i'm through with this book: "con man", aka the story of the impostor who conned his way into princeton

'our sense of who we are is forged in our interactions with others, shaping, in turn, how we interact with others and how they see themselves.' also certain parts of the brain like the medial prefrontal cortex and the temporal-parietal junction are heightened during self-referential cognition and reflected self-appraisal. how v interesting. in other news this chapter is taking me forever to finish

'there was a silence that did not seem to be the quiet of peace.'

rly interesting so far and I'm rly excited to get to the chapter on emotion and attitudes but i still have a while to go before that :-)

:')

'I will take the Ring,' he said, 'though I do not know the way.'

chatterboxes.

she lightly fled on dancing feet,
and left him lonely still to roam
in the silent forest listening.

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crown less again shall be king."

“Then they lay basking in the sun with the delight of those that have been wafted suddenly from bitter winter to a friendly clime, or of people that, after being long ill and bedridden, wake one day to find that they are unexpectedly well and the day is again full of promise.”

“…I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again.”

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”

Re-reading for the 3rd time(???) and finally annotating!

“Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”

This book is so intense