Chidera Eggerue
To care is to be vulnerable. According to the world, it's not cool to be vulnerable; it's cool to be stoic, aloof and unconcerned, because to emotionally inept people, this shows resilience, strength of character and the oh-so-admirable quality of being eternally unbothered. But this is all wrong, because to be constantly 'unbothered' is to be dead inside.
Oliver Sacks
- Gratitude
I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.
Naomi Wolf
- Hunger
I held her between my forearms without strain. She'd made it. She had escaped gravity. Her limbs were as light as hollow birch branches, the scrolls of their bark whole, but the marrow crumbled, the sap gone brittle. I folded her up easily, because there was nothing to her.
Oliver Sacks
- Narcolepsy and Night Hags
It is now known that the hypothalamus secretes "wakefulness" hormones, orexins, and that these are deficient in people who have congenital narcolepsy. Damage to the hypothalamus, from a head injury or a tumor or disease, can also cause narcolepsy later in life.
