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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| eca6524 | He said I didn't need to save him.' 'But you want to.' 'Yeah. But I can't. Right?' 'Probably not. Usually not. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 2986a56 | I think about how there are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. ... And I don't just mean that they change you. A lot of people can change you... I'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. My mom was right about that. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundre.. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 480aca3 | Can it really be love if we don't talk that much, don't see each other? Isn't love something that happens between people who spend time together and know each other's faults and take care of each other? ... In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the colour and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 8763dd3 | Right now I would love to have a personal message from God. I want to believe the way I used to, when my dad or mom or sometimes both of them would pray with me at night and I would picture God listening, kind-eyed and bearded. He was real to me, as real as my own parents. I don't know when God stopped being someone I saw as my true friend, and turned into something I'm mostly confused about. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 7260f12 | Now I think miracles are things that happen in stained glass, and on dusty Jerusalem roads thousands of years ago. Not here, not to us. Not when we need them. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 40a3a10 | Mom always says that doubt is just another way of expressing faith... This is different than doubt. This is something I've never felt before, a total absence of whatever it is that's made me who I am, on the inside, all my life. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 9e59c57 | Right now it's like we're three islands, and nothing but oceans between us. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 511de82 | And, to our collective surprise, it turned out that for a person who doesn't like people, I'm pretty good at this customer service stuff. | Sara Zarr | ||
| acf5ec8 | And I'll dream about living there one day myself, about boats and bicycles and water, and a dog running next to me on the road, in the green, green afternoon light. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 25fa207 | I'd been in bed for an hour without falling asleep, going over my day and all the ways I had been weird at school. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 0b938fd | You are beautiful, Lucy. Inside and out. And that hurts, too. It hurts more specifically. More personally. | Sara Zarr | ||
| c7d486d | When Dad & I used to tell each other to try a little tenderness we meant calm down, be soft, stop having to be right, give a person the benefit of the doubt for a change. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 11d50ee | These days with Dylan - when we're together - it's more friendly and cozy than romantic and exciting, but it still soothes me. Isn't that more caring about myself, though, than loving him? Shouldn't love have at least a little to do with the other person, separate from yourself? But how can you see anything or anyone in the world apart from yourself? I mean, everything we experience is subjective, since we have no way of experiencing it oth.. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 004f5af | Her door is cracked only a tiny bit, and her room is dark. Through the crack I can see her legs on the bed and hear her crying. Not like the big sobbing you do when something tragic and unexpected happens. It's the quiet kind of crying that can go for hours, when over and over again you try to stop, try to tell yourself it's going to be okay, but another part of yourself can't stop thinking about the thing that's breaking your heart. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 86c9ab7 | And when you can't stand yourself, you don't want people around who are constantly saying how much they love you, because you know you don't deserve it. | Sara Zarr | ||
| e42ce7a | The first person to refer to Darwin's tales as Just So Stories was a Harvard paleontologist and evolutionist, Stephen Jay Gould, in 1978.61 | Tom Wolfe | ||
| 06092be | Because every thought she had, everything she observed around her, every conversation, every experience, everything that made her laugh - she imagined telling him, or him watching. She wanted herself, the particular way he saw her and the way she like to be seen by him, reflected back, over and over. It was like there was this letter to him in her head that she was always writing and never getting to send. It reminded her of being a kid and.. | Sara Zarr | ||
| 3ae9105 | I couldn't see beyond the walls of our apartment or the few miles between home and school. Every day was about getting through it. Every weekend was about getting back to school, where there could be some structure and my routines. | sisters | Sara Zarr | |
| 0f28dc6 | Kip is still one of my best friends. When you have a shared experience with someone who showed you some kindness when you needed it most, it sticks with you. | sisters | Sara Zarr | |
| f35b737 | All summer they'd been pushing me towards my freedom and now I wanted to claim it | Sara Zarr | ||
| ab2b8e4 | I was out of practice with my emotions (...) | Donna Freitas | ||
| f8c542c | I thought about love as we stood there, the day turning to dusk and the temperature dropping, and my heart, the one inside of me, become fuller. | Donna Freitas | ||
| e56ed8a | I would work my way toward the Rose from before, who laughed often, who felt things so deeply, who could move through the world brimming with feeling and emotion. | Donna Freitas | ||
| d48c189 | I`d learned from experience that hugging someone only encouraged the person to cry even harder and I always wanted the tears to stop. But I was beginning to understand that there would always be sadness when it comes to our mother. A layer of sorrow was now knit through us so certain moments, memories, even new experiences, would tap it, and this was one of those moments. So instead of leaving Jim alone until the tears dried up and disappea.. | Donna Freitas | ||
| cdaedac | it never occurred to me that the girl I`d always been in high school could bend and shift and change without breaking altogether! | Donna Freitas | ||
| 00e2ccf | This is what I imagined as I watched my kite, my beautiful kite, with its heart, its star and crayon, its note and flowers glowing from the light of the sun behind it. I felt love and grief and joy and all the emotions in between, letting my weathered broken heart knit itself back together again as I said goodbye to my mother. Our imaginations are such gifts, she used to say. So I thanked her for mine. | Donna Freitas | ||
| 7a250e6 | For me to give someone a firm and enthusiastic yes or no is to presume the person I am saying yes or no to is my equal, or at least someone I feel equal to saying yes or no to, as though they are a partner, a friend, someone with whom I am on the same footing. It presumes I am in possession of some power in the situation. It presumes the other person sees me as an equal, or something like a peer, and is waiting to see if they are going to g.. | Donna Freitas | ||
| 775d06f | There is a liminal space created between the powerful person and the person who is the target of unwanted attention, a liminal space between outright yes and outright no -- not a maybe-yes or maybe-no -- but more of a hovering, a being caught and not knowing where else to go or how to move without making things much worse. So you stay put. You hold the person off as best you can without causing them to retaliate too terribly, and because yo.. | Donna Freitas | ||
| 5808135 | Gymnasts develop fears about certain moves and get hang-ups about doing routines at meets or anxiety about certain rivals who can psych them out. | Donna Freitas | ||
| 708bb44 | There were just little things and they still made me sad, but I become better at staying in my sadness and at resisting the urge to chase it away. | Donna Freitas | ||
| 516a8bc | I remembered the words in the note Mom left in my Survival Kit about using my imagination. Finally, after all this time, I felt its wheels begin to turn again, slowly at first, as if they were rusty, then with more confidence, as if someone had flipped on a switch. In the light of this awareness, I began to have faith that my mother was still with me, embedded and woven into this part of me I`d tried so hard to bury, the part that was most .. | Donna Freitas | ||
| a02201b | I devised a list of things I needed to accomplish, all of them related to the Survival Kit and my mother. I was no longer going in any particular order or interpreting my tasks so literally and narrowly. They took on a life of their own, a life that I was giving them now. | Donna Freitas | ||
| ff1f162 | Music hadn`t always deepened my grief. For most of my sixteen years, it had healed my hurts, soothed them, given me a way to remember and the strength to move on. | Donna Freitas | ||
| ae67f13 | All around the country, at universities far and wide, at workplaces of all sizes and types, at companies that boast of doing good and making the world a better place, there are file cabinets full of the bloody tongues of women. Some are young and tender, others more weathered and battered, but all of them taken from us by people in business-casual attire, in suits and sensible skirts, walking up to us as though what they are about to do is .. | Donna Freitas | ||
| 88aa2ab | There is a liminal space created between the powerful person and the person who is the target of unwanted attention, a liminal space between outright yes and outright no. That space is not a compromise--not a maybe-yes or maybe-no--but more of a hovering, a being caught and not knowing where else to go or how to move without making things much worse. So you stay put. You hold the person off as best you can without causing them to retaliate .. | Donna Freitas | ||
| 4dc5843 | I am a survivor, but I also am, and always will be, a victim. I can't speak for others who share this dual identity, but I can say for myself that, while I wish to be the proud person who exclusively occupies the title of survivor, I still claim the territory of the shivering, cowering victim. | Donna Freitas | ||
| 6f427c5 | Before the first plugs, an early version of the virtual world existed. People carried around handheld devices that allowed them to access it. | Donna Freitas | ||
| e0e43c1 | But the maintenance of two entirely different shelves - one real, one virtual - was confusing and exhausting. People became so addicted to looking at their tablets that they stopped going outside and even stopped talking to their real friends and loved ones. The app world save every one of this division by liberating people from their bodies and allowing them a permanent virtual existence. | Donna Freitas | ||
| 74d0eda | all the bad things that had happened to him were necessary if the intended outcome was to occur. | Jonathan Sacks | ||
| b78704d | Cultural change works orders of magnitude faster then genetic change. Stephen Jay Gould | community | Jonathan Haidt | |
| 0f6e8a1 | Stephen Jay Gould | V.S. Ramachandran | ||
| 51b7dfc | We don't have to become science popularizers like Stephen Jay Gould or Carl Sagan, we just have to become better storytellers. Doing so will make us more effective with each other, with our professional translators (science journalists like Kolbert), with policy makers, and with the public. | Joshua Schimel | ||
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Por que iba a ser nuestra maldad el bagaje de un pasado simiesco, y nuestra bondad, exclusivamente humana? ?Por que no hemos de buscar la continuidad con otros animales tambien para nuestros atributos < |
Christopher Ryan | ||
| c7dd97b | The basic principles of evolutionary biology would seem to dictate that any natural phenomenon as prominent in our lives as our experience of consciousness must necessarily have some discernible and quantifiable effect in order for it to exist, and to persist, in nature at all. It must, in other words, confer some selective advantage. And that raises an obvious question: What possible selective advantage could consciousness offer if it is o.. | Jeffrey M. Schwartz |