I wouldn`t want to be that smart" Clare added. "Sometimes the more you know, the harder it is to enjoy life. It`s like you lose curiosity or something.
Katie KacvinskyThoughts are circular, they don't take you anywhere. They don't have feet-they can't gain any ground. They can trap you if you don't eventually stand up and make a move.
Katie KacvinskyI rolled my eyes. "He's talking to himself. My vote is he's crazy."
He thought about this. "Maybe he's normal and we're the crazy ones. Maybe everyone should talk to themselves. Maybe we're all just afraid of what we'd say.
Stichwörter: insanity crazy normal
It's like looking through a microscope your whole life," he (Justin) said. "You miss the whole picture. Sometimes you need to get lost in order to discover anything.
Katie KacvinskyStichwörter: lost discovery myopia
You're not saving lives, Dad. You can't save lives when no one's living anymore. (Maddie)
Katie KacvinskyStichwörter: living
She explained sometimes the story is supposed to be missing because it's still waiting to be written.
Katie KacvinskyI'm used to the security of living behind my online profiles and the clip art advertisdements I create to define me. I can be whoever I want to be in that world. I can be funny, deep, pensive, eccentric. I can be the best version of myself. I can make all the right decisions. I can delete my flaws by pressing a button.
In the real world anything can happen. It's like stepping onto an icy surface--you have to adjust your footing or you'll slip and fall. Your movements become rigid and unsure because behind all the fancy gadgets and all that digital armor, you realize you're just flesh and bones.
Stichwörter: real-world flesh-and-bones
Intuition works closely alongside fate, like they're business partners working together to alter the course of your life.
Katie KacvinskyThere's a reason why stars can only exist in the sky -- they're just rockets of light traveling through space, so it feels right to admire their form from a distance. People, solid and living and breathing together in the same world, are not meant to be surround by that much darkness.
Katie KacvinskyThis life had always been my routine but now it felt like a cage.
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