The Book of (More) Delights Quotes

“I've completed another year of delights. Or maybe I should say another year of delights has completed me.”
― Ross Gay, The Book of (More) Delights: Essays

“2 I know it might be tedious, and I know I might be close to undelightful ranting, but I’m going to take one more step toward us to suggest that any time we opt for the human interaction rather than the automated or digital one, which requires noticing how ubiquitous the automated or digital one has become (ubiquity makes invisibility, makes us look up from our machines and be like where’d the people go?)—checking out groceries; getting our ibuprofen; the menu thing; being in class; getting directions; finding or buying a book; learning how to do stuff—is a small act of revolt. Except there’s no such thing as small revolt, because each revolt, even if only fleetingly, even if only for an instant, is making the world of our dreams.”
― Ross Gay, The Book of (More) Delights: Essays

“I had an Aunt Truly, who we mostly called T, though if I could call after her again I’d say Truly, because it’s one of the prettier names I’ve ever heard.”
― Ross Gay, The Book of (More) Delights: Essays