Her world is full of children and dings and action verbs, but I’m uncomfortable with verbs; they expect too much.
Category: Quotes
from Tallgrass
Conservation biologists have given us a term for what we already knew – that many people are simply oblivious to the natural world, especially plants. Charismatic megafauna like polar bears and pandas get lots of attention, funding and research – while less obvious green beings may slip away with scarcely a nod. They’ve called it […]
from Us against You
It’s so easy to place your hope in people. To think that the world can change overnight. We demonstrate after an attack, we donate money after a disaster, we lay our hearts bare online. But for every step forward we take, we take an almost equally large step back. Seen over time, every change is […]
from Us against you
Perhaps one day he’ll find words for that feeling of being different. How physical it is. Exclusion is a form of exhaustion that eats its way into your skeleton. People who are like everyone else, who belong to the norm, the majority, can’t possibly understand. How can they? Fredrik Backman – Us against You – […]
from Us against You
It’s always the aggressors’ feelings we have to defend. As if they’re the ones who need our understanding. Fredrik Backman – Us against You – pg. 280
from Us against You
The comment section does what the comment section always does: smells blood and catches fire. Fredrick Backman – Us against you – pg. 147
from Masterminds of the right
The tactics, and at times, the sheer genius, of the conservative lobby came most sharply into focus during the 1986 divorce referendum. Here was an issue that which was not as clear-cut as abortion. … the tactics used were those of the marketing guru. Points of psychological vulnerability were isolated and played upon. The fear […]
from Alias Grace
A woman like me is always a temptation, if possible to arrange it unobserved; as whatever we may say about it later, we will not be believed
from The Wild Places
So few wild creatures, relatively, remain in Britain and Ireland: so few, relatively, in the world. Pursuing our project of civilisation, we have pushed thousands of species towards the brink of disappearance, and many thousands more over that edge. The loss, after it is theirs, is ours. Wild animals, like wild places, are invaluable to […]
from Mayhem
But how can you trust anyone’s story? Every story, including mine, is an enactment of what we wish to be true, an edited version of our selves. Mayhem: a memoir
from Mayhem
We thought we were so modern. But then so did our parents, and so did their parents before them. Mayhem: a memoir
from Mayhem
It’s easy to express vulnerability when you are strong, and almost impossible when you are not. Mayhem: a memoir