“When you see somebody else displaying one of these traits, it’s infuriating, not because you inherently dislike it, but because you have to fight your desire to fully integrate it into your whole consciousness. … The things you hate about others are the things you cannot see in yourself.”—Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think. Highlighted
“The root of the work of being human is learning how to think.”—Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think. Highlighted
“We can’t choose whose wreckage can [change the parts of ourselves and our worlds we can’t]. We all start as strangers, but we forget that we rarely choose who ends up a stranger, too.”—Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think. Highlighted
“We find people irrationally compelling. We find souls made of the same stuff ours are.”—Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think. Highlighted
“You can be more or less attracted to someone, more or less compatible, but choosing to love and appreciate someone, regardless of those variables is a constant that you can choose.”—Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think. Highlighted
“You are psychologically incapable of being able to predict what will make you happy. Your brain can only perceive what it's known, so when you choose what you want for the future, you're actually just recreating a solution or ideal of the past.”—Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think. Highlighted
“My mother was, in the tradition of parents, quite a complicated and contradictory human being. ... I never knew how many of her oddities had sprung from grief and how many from her own inherent nature.”—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
“But recently, now, I was starting to feel that you couldn’t do mathematics with emotions. In protecting yourself from hurt you could create a new, subtler type of pain.”—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
“... A peck on the lips was not just a peck. ‘What was that for?’ I asked. I could just about see her smile in the moonlight. It wasn’t a flirtatious smile. It was a plain, matter-of-fact one. ‘For you to have something else to occupy your mind.’ ‘I am not sure I have ever met someone like you,’ I said.”—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
“‘You are not the only one with sorrows in this world. Don’t hoard them like they are precious. There is always plenty of them to go around.’”—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
“‘Music is about time,’ I told her. ‘It is about controlling time.’”—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
“I looked at her for too long, and with too much intensity in my eyes. The way people never look at people any more. I wanted her in every sense. To want is to lack. That is what it means.”—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
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