I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Iain Reid)
- Your Highlight on Location 452-453 | Added on Sunday, September 13, 2020 8:52:50 PM
‘There are certain things in life, not very many, that are real, confirmed cures for rainy days, for loneliness. Puzzles are like that. We each have to solve our own.’
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Iain Reid)
- Your Highlight on Location 600-601 | Added on Sunday, September 13, 2020 11:43:38 PM
Forfeiting solitude, independence, is a much greater sacrifice than most of us realize. Sharing a habitat, a life, is for sure harder than being alone.
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Iain Reid)
- Your Highlight on Location 605-606 | Added on Sunday, September 13, 2020 11:44:19 PM
What if intelligence leads to more loneliness rather than to fulfillment? What if instead of productivity and clarity, it generates pain, isolation, and regret?
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Iain Reid)
- Your Highlight on Location 701-703 | Added on Monday, September 14, 2020 9:24:57 PM
“There are many around the university, students and profs whose biggest concern each day—and I’m not exaggerating—is how to burn the proper number of calories for their specific body type based on diet and amount of strenuous exercise. Think about that in the context of human history. Talk about sad.
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Iain Reid)
- Your Highlight on Location 776-777 | Added on Monday, September 14, 2020 9:31:50 PM
Maybe that’s how we know when a relationship is real. When someone else previously unconnected to us knows us in a way we never thought or believed possible.
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Iain Reid)
- Your Highlight on Location 822-822 | Added on Monday, September 14, 2020 9:37:01 PM
remember coming out on humid
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Iain Reid)
- Your Highlight on Location 885-886 | Added on Monday, September 14, 2020 9:45:34 PM
What if suffering doesn’t end with death? How can we know? What if it doesn’t get better? What if death isn’t an escape? What if the maggots continue to feed and feed and feed and continue to be felt? This possibility scares me.
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Iain Reid)
- Your Highlight on Location 901-902 | Added on Monday, September 14, 2020 9:47:57 PM
There’s also that smell of burning wood again, and a distinct atmospheric scent that every house has. Its own smell that its inhabitants are never aware of.
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Iain Reid)
- Your Highlight on Location 924-925 | Added on Monday, September 14, 2020 9:50:55 PM
Some of the figurines are picking flowers. Some are carrying hay. Whatever they’re doing, they’re doing it for eternity.
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Iain Reid)
- Your Highlight on Location 1033-1033 | Added on Monday, September 14, 2020 10:11:28 PM
Seeing someone with their parents is a tangible reminder that we’re all composites.
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Iain Reid)
- Your Highlight on Location 1973-1974 | Added on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 2:10:47 PM
Something that disorients, that unsettles what’s taken for granted, something that disturbs and disrupts reality—that’s scary.
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Iain Reid)
- Your Highlight on Location 2008-2010 | Added on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 2:15:08 PM
We can’t and don’t know what others are thinking. We can’t and don’t know what motivations people have for doing the things they do. Ever. Not entirely. This was my terrifying, youthful epiphany. We just never really know anyone. I don’t. Neither do you.
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