The Knowing Quotes

“And thanks to her now being phone-less, she cannot distract herself from these intolerable aspects of her humanness. She can't scroll any feeds. She can't watch any instructional vids. She can't laugh at any memes. She can't put any bottles of limited-edition botanical perfume or boxes of hand-rolled incense sticks in a shopping cart and forget about them. She can't look at any sponsored posts from "it" girls sailing across the Mediterranean in spangly bikinis and being sexy-yet-candid in hotel rooms. She can't read any reviews of restaurants she'll never eat, because her diet is plant-based, yet she'll obsess over the way they describe those crackling pulled-pork sandwiches, and those oily anchovy-and-garlic pizzas, and those sweet, sticky egg-noodle dishes. She can't listen to any music. She can't send Manny any funny gifs about Valentine's Day because she doesn't. Have. Her. Phone.
Camille has been wanting to read books on the train to give her eyes a rest, and to give her insecurities a rest, and to give her soul a rest, but she hasn't gotten around to it, because there are so many things she needs to do on her phone first.”
― Madeleine Ryan, The Knowing

“But, you know
life is a compost
a garden
whatever
you never know what it’s going to grow from the seeds you plant.”
― Madeleine Ryan, The Knowing