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“When you read a novel, you are immersing yourself in what it鈥檚 like to be inside another person鈥檚 head. You are simulating a social situation. You are imagining other people and their experiences in a deep and complex way. So maybe, he said, if you read a lot of novels, you will become better at actually understanding other people off the page. Perhaps fiction is a kind of empathy gym, boosting your ability to empathize with other people鈥攚hich is one of the most rich and precious forms of focus we have. Together, they decided to begin to study this question scientifically.”
― Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention鈥攁nd How to Think Deeply Again

“You don鈥檛 get what you don鈥檛 fight for.”
― Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention鈥攁nd How to Think Deeply Again

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention鈥攁nd How to Think Deeply Again

“they say lavender softens anxiety
and i wonder whether i can plant a garden
so dense in your mind
that the knots in your chest unravel
and never tighten again.”
― Jasmine Kaur

“She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted dusty and sweet. He tasted like regret in the shadows of trees and in the glow of the anarchist's suit collection. She kissed him long and soft, and when she pulled herself away, she touched his mouth with her fingers...She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on...”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. ”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck

“It is one of the things she has come to love about America, the abundance of unreasonable hope.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck

“It is our diffidence about the afterlife that leads us to religion”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck

“There were emotions she wanted to hold in the palm of her hand that were simply no longer there.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck