“If you want to take the road to independence and happiness, first find the right person to depend on and travel down it with them.”—Amir Levine, Attached. Highlighted
“Getting attached means that our brain becomes wired to seek the support of our partner by ensuring the partner’s psychological and physical proximity. If our partner fails to reassure us, we are programmed to continue our attempts to achieve closeness until the partner does.”—Amir Levine, Attached. Highlighted
“I have to do this for my kids. I mean—they’re not my kids. But they’re my kids.”—Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary. Highlighted
“As hundreds of astronauts have done before, I place my faith and my life in the hands of the engineers who designed the system.”—Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary. Highlighted
“A thought occurs to him. He stops working on his device entirely. “You hear light from space, question? You hear stars, planets, asteroids, question?””—Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary. Highlighted
“You are a good human.”—Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary. Highlighted
“You are stupid right now. You sleep.”—Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary. Highlighted
“How does the love keep swelling in the cavities of our frail bodies, how do these husks hold so much jagged pleasure in their parched split skins?”—Ellen Bass, Mules of love. Highlighted
“I have worried all over the world. It comes to me easily. Formed slowly through childhood like stalactites in a cave.”—Ellen Bass, Mules of love. Highlighted
“In a poem, we don’t care if you got hired or fired, lost or found love, recovered or kept drinking. You don’t have to exercise or forgive. We’re hungry. We’ll take everything on the menu.”—Ellen Bass, Mules of love. Highlighted
“Soon you’ll place bookmarks and go upstairs. I’ve seen your room with its sloping ceiling. Your bed. I won’t imagine more.”—Ellen Bass, Mules of love. Highlighted
“there are mornings when I wake, my lips swollen from your kisses, my body bruised and fragrant as grasses on which lions have lain, and for a full bereft moment, I cannot, for the life of me, remember why I left.”—Ellen Bass, Mules of love. Highlighted
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