switterbug (Betsey)

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Other ideas still, though, were darker, underwater, or he underwater and they above the surface, clear and sharp and focused. He could hear them in his head, feel their weight in his chest and their shapes in his throat, but he was slow of tongue and they went unworded. He knew everyone had the same kind of ideas, but that his thoughts outdistanced his words sooner than with other people—even the words for what he meant when he thought about this hovered above the water—dark, familiar circling birds he could not name.”
― Paul Harding, This Other Eden