Worderist

You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.
The Testaments, Margaret Atwood

Skewing reality

Some thoughts on the unintended consequences of our tendency to only share our successes.

The spider’s web is a home and a trap.
There There, Tommy Orange

Toni Morrison on critical thinking, hope, and a reminder that we don’t have to accept the labels bestowed upon us by others.

…he had answered “nothing”, that word we answer when we are thinking “everything”.
On Heroes and Tombs, Ernesto Sabato

How I came to discover that my judgement is considerably worse than I thought, and what I think I’ve learned as a result.

Men carve meaning into women’s faces; messages addressed to other men.
The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker

Neil Gaiman on the breaking the rules, the fraud police, fantastic mistakes, and making good art.

… everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Cat’s Eye, Margaret Atwood

Born in 1880 in Genoa, this engineer and architect, had grand designs indeed.