Root and Branch Quotes

“I can’t stop thinking about my face, what it is doing or failing to do, or if my voice, my accent, sound correct like everyone else’s.”
― Eda Gunaydin, Root & Branch: Essays on inheritance

“think that I hate to hug because I hate to shower; later I realise I don’t shower so I have a reason not to hug.”
― Eda Gunaydin, Root & Branch: Essays on inheritance

“Dr Ellen Hendriksen explains that one of the effects of smartphones, and push notifications in particular, is to create a (false) sense of alarm and urgency, a constant anticipation that an alert could go off at any moment, with no predictability. A second, linked, phenomenon is that technology feeds anxiety by enabling us not to talk to one another – instead of asking for directions we can pull up a map, for example – and so erodes our tolerance for human interaction, and unpredictability, and prevents us from building social ease.”
― Eda Gunaydin, Root & Branch: Essays on inheritance