None of This is Serious
Catherine Prasifka
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I'm trapped by the concept of the present, by the idea that time is moving forward and I'm witnessing it.”
“I'm tired of crying over stupid boys who aren't worth it.”
“Rory links me an article about climate change and we chat back and forth about how hopeless and apathetic we both are, which I think is flirting.”
“Modern life is a fiction; it feels like nothing ever changes, but when you examine its fabric, its zeros and ones, it's falling apart. We've just collectively decided to believe that it's not.”
“Maybe I could do a Mastsers, or teach English abroad, or write a novel. Maybe I could do all three.”
“Isn't it weird to think that everything is so unstable? Like, we all believe in the magic of technology; it feels so permanent but, just like that, it's gone.”
“I've never been so aware of the present, and the fact that moments like these come and go, and are lost for ever. It's likely, in ten years' time, I won't know any of these people any more. Some of them may even be dead. I might be dead.”
“I want to move on from now. I want to grasp the future that is available to me and stop fixating on what I've done. I'm not alone, I've never been alone; I just had the wrong idea of what loneliness meant. I want to stop pretending I believe what I've been taught happiness is: I have to find out for myself.”
“I need him, like this, right now. The problem is I can't need him any more. I don't want to stop being with him, but I can't be with him.”
“At some point along the way, the way we receive information became more important than the information itself; it became the information. I can't count the hours I've spent scrolling on Instagram just waiting for someone to post something, anything. I'm inhabited by a desperate fear that I'll miss something, to the point that I'm willing to waste my life waiting.”
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Book Keywords:
the-future, technology, feminism, modern-life, instability, moving-on, happiness, heartbreak, the-present, time, falling-apart, impermanence, loneliness
