“I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”
— Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Haruki Murakami)
We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.
- Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
“It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.”
— Naguib Mahfouz
Hi hello, do you guys also have that “after a Ghibli movie” state where you do something mundane like folding fresh laundry or making a braid or cutting bread and it’s suddenly the most peaceful, beautiful activity ever and you can hear the distant music playing and the wind from the ocean is suddenly blowing through your open windows? Or is it just me??
