Thomas Unterkircher
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Thomas Unterkircher
Kiki turned to her husband with a thesis for a face, of which only Howard could know every line and reference.
Zadie Smith • On Beauty
"You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their Sweetn
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Ask yourself, next time you’re doing something enjoyable: are you really surrendering to the full enjoyment available here? The answer will often be no. Perhaps this has something to do with how displays of rapturous delight are often discouraged in adolescence.
Sasha Chapin • 50 Things I Know
We think we live in boxes until we look closer and find we’re in fact living in irregular shapes, in big, misshapen accidents.
Michael Christie • Greenwood
We have a saying in Afrikaans that translates to "you are missing someone you don't know". And we usually say it when someone has unexplained sadness.
“Though we live in a world made of gifts, we find ourselves harnessed to institutions and an economy that relentlessly asks, ‘What more can we take from the Earth?’ This worldview of unbridled exploitation is to my mind the greatest threat to the life that surrounds us. Even our definitions of sustainability revolve around trying to find the formul
... See moreHe kisses - how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can only use the present tense and only the second person. Only now, only you.
Andrew Sean Greer • Less
That’s the very reason they put rubbers on the end of pencils... because people make mistakes.
– Phoebe Waller-Bridge