She couldn’t think of much else to do. A lot of the work here consisted of propping things up or taping them shut.

Karin Tidbeck, The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir [Amazon, Publisher]

Hermetic quote Tidbeck Skidbladnir propping things up taping them shut

Consider also:

  1. “Our society doesn’t prepare people to deal with most of the challenges we actually end up facing. Stress, overwhelm, constant worry, the breakup of meaningful relationships, death of loved ones–these are just a few of the aspects of life that our schooling never addresses.”
  2. “There is more truth in happiness than in despair.”
  3. “We supposedly live in a multitasking world, but multitasking (called ‘task switching’ in neuroscience) is very inefficient, mainly because there is a cognitive cost each time you switch between tasks. The cure is to do one thing at a time. That’s it in a nutshell. Do just what you’re doing and don’t do anything else.”
  4. “Sometimes, out of all this static and confusion, the Other assembles itself and takes form before our very eyes.”
  5. “This isn’t going to end well, Sandra.”