#p160

[leatherbounded]

I love learning. I love history. But there's history in everything. Every building, everybody you talk to. It's not limited to libraries and museums. I think people who spend their lives in school forget that sometimes.

Becky Chambers, from A Closed and Common Orbit

[nusumigaki]

読んでいない本について気後れすることなしに話したければ、欠陥なき教養という重苦しいイメージから自分を解放するべきである。

[readinginmars]

"It felt like the world had divided into two different types of people, those who had felt pain and those who had yet to."

Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner

[readinginmars]

"For here was the thing that no fairy tale would ever admit, but that she understood in that moment: love was not inherently good.

Certainly, it could inspire goodness. She didn't argue that. Poets would tell you that love was electricity in your veins that could light a room. That it was a river in your soul to lift you up and carry you away, or a fire inside the heart to keep you warm. Yet electricity could also fry, rivers could drown, and fires could burn; love could be destructive. Punishingly, fatally destructive."

The Book Eaters - Sunyi Dean

[readinginmars]

"We hold the secrets, and we can set whatever terms we like. That's the beauty of being cleverer than everyone else."

Babel - R. F. Kuang

[nusumigaki]

つまり僕が言いたいのは、いったい誰が一枚のポップ・アルバムにこれほど多くの音楽を、これほど多くの独創性を、これほど多くの苦悩を詰め込んだりするだろうか、ということだ。

[nusumigaki]

人生は続く。何の意味もないが、人生は続く。

[nusumigaki]

人の目につかぬまま、ふらふらと森に入っていった。束縛を逃れた自由の喜び、探究と冒険の機会を得た喜びがある。