Lost and Wanted Quotes

“I think that with most of our friends we choose how much of ourselves to reveal, and with a very select few it feels as if there is no choice.”
― Nell Freudenberger, Lost and Wanted

“I had an uncomfortable feeling I sometimes get in conversation with another person, as if the fundamental part of myself had evaporated-not in the sense of being gone, but as if it has undergone a phase transition and is hovering over my actual body as a vapor. That's the best I can describe it, as if my consciousness and my physical person are suddenly separated.”
― Nell Freudenberger, Lost and Wanted

“I think we believed that what we'd achieved acamically was akin to growing up, rather than something we might have done in place of it.”
― Nell Freudenberger, Lost and Wanted

“We now know that our universe is almost certainly 13.77 billion years old, and that it expanded more than a trillion trillion times in the first trillionth of a trillionth of a second of its life.”
― Nell Freudenberger, Lost and Wanted

“What do we get out of entering other people's suffering in art, when we often avoid it in life?”
― Nell Freudenberger, Lost and Wanted

“Physicists know that if you and I are sitting in a room together, you exert a gravitational force on me. It's almost nothing-I can't feel it-but it's the same force that binds our planet to our star.”
― Nell Freudenberger, Lost and Wanted

“I read this article about how you can have anything going on in your head, as long as it doesn't manifest itself. Like a reflection.'
I waited for my sister to expand on that, but she remained quiet.
'LIke a reflection that's different from what's doing the reflecting,' I suggested.”
― Nell Freudenberger, Lost and Wanted

“Charlie and I both felt very adult that last year of college, very experienced: I think we believed that what we'd achieved academically was akin to growing up, rather than something we might have done in place of it.”
― Nell Freudenberger, Lost and Wanted

“They forget how much they used to love their own parents,” she said, “when they were kids.”
― Nell Freudenberger, Lost and Wanted

“I’ve never worked on quantum entanglement, which Einstein once dismissed as “spooky action at a distance.” It’s a real phenomenon, though, one that has less to do with communication than with a shared history that causes a pair of particles, even once they’ve been permanently separated, to behave as if they knew what each other was thinking.”
― Nell Freudenberger, Lost and Wanted

“it was something harder to describe than that. We were on each other’s side in a way that felt permanent, and so it hurt more than it might have otherwise, when she decided to shut me out.”
― Nell Freudenberger, Lost and Wanted

“One clue is that in pseudoscience, every piece fits neatly inside a theory and the scientist is never wrong.”
― Nell Freudenberger, Lost and Wanted