Happy Birthday Tante Quotes & Sayings

Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when there's not yet a smudge, the slate still blank, there is only the present moment: each vital detail, shocked color, the fall of light. Like film stills. The mind relentlessly open to the world, deeply impressed, even hurt by it: not yet gauzed by memory. — Nicole Krauss

The logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of "true" nature
the certainty that it's not even worth looking at. (62) — Richard Louv

My earliest memory is aged three, seeing sunlight on water and feeling it was really magical. — Miranda July

If you knew the true value of yourself, you will never allow yourself to be humiliated by committing sins. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

There was no point in stealing well or wisely if the loot couldn't be stashed somewhere safe. — Scott Lynch

Novels are longer than life. — Natalie Clifford Barney

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment. — Richard Whately

Julius brooded. He could see Julius despising the medical school of Pavia. Tobie said, Nicholas managed the journey from Flanders all right. Deferred to you, joked discreetly with me, got on like a dyeworks on fire with the muleteers. — Dorothy Dunnett

In the 1970s, a group of researchers got themselves deliberately confined to mental asylums across United States. They did this by pretending to hear voices. They pretended to hear a voice saying, Empty, Dull and Thud.
But as soon as they were admitted to the wards, they stopped pretending and never mention the voice again.
And here's the mad part
The hospital staff outright refused to believe they were better, and kept them locked up anyway - some of them for months on end -each forced into accepting they had a mental illness, and agreeing to take drugs as a condition of their release. This is what labels do. They stick. — Nathan Filer

No one wanted to hear that people other than themselves might be complicated, that no one was ever just one thing, no history ever just one version. — Patrick Ness