What Falls from the Sky Quotes

“or that the actors are good enough to carry it even when their characters are thin. That isn’t entertainment to us anymore. That’s imprisonment. It is a mild and temporary imprisonment. Like an airplane or a dentist’s chair. So”
― Esther Emery, What Falls from the Sky: How I Disconnected from the Internet and Reconnected with the God Who Made the Clouds

“but we can no longer understand the logic of placing your mind fully at the mercy of your entertainment. For two and a half hours, we were unable to read anything, or learn anything, or plant anything, or fix anything, or think for ourselves. All we could do was sit there and ride the movie and hope to God that it has more funny parts than boring parts,”
― Esther Emery, What Falls from the Sky: How I Disconnected from the Internet and Reconnected with the God Who Made the Clouds

“Jacob will tell me later that important people have always kept copies of their letters. He will even tell me about a machine invented by a famous American that would allow him to write two copies of a letter at once while only grasping one pen. So then I’ll say, okay, okay, maybe it isn’t the mailbox that forces this perspective of generosity. Maybe I found generosity here because generosity is something I’ve been looking for. Maybe I’m tired of acting like the mythical “economic man” who always pursues the greatest gain for the least amount of effort. Maybe I’m tired of holding my fist so tight my nails dig into my palm. I want to act as if I have enough. I have enough time. I have enough creativity. I have enough paper, and marker ink, to share.”
― Esther Emery, What Falls from the Sky: How I Disconnected from the Internet and Reconnected with the God Who Made the Clouds

“My hope was that going off my artificial entertainment addiction would tell me what I have never gotten right about Christmas, and about meaning, and about what it takes to keep a family together. I had hoped my experiment would unlock a magic pattern obscured all this time with my running around and being desperate and chasing shiny things. But so far, all it does is make me feel the things I’ve lost.”
― Esther Emery, What Falls from the Sky: How I Disconnected from the Internet and Reconnected with the God Who Made the Clouds