“We don’t need monsters or machines to torment us. We’re perfectly happy to do it to ourselves, in rooms filled with mirrors. No zombies or vampires, no robots, no little green men. Just ourselves.” PsychologyHuman NatureDystopian Book:Eden Source: Eden
“There are things within us that are not made from ones and zeros. There are birds which soar and voices that sing.’ She tapped her temple again. ‘This life – the inner life – they can’t touch that.” HumanityTechnologyThe Inner Life Book:Eden Source: Eden
“Her gaze drifted upwards, as though looking beyond their immediate plane of existence. ‘To see, to be alive, and to be present in this world is such a privilege. To engage our senses, hold our loved ones, breathe this air, and witness the natural world. To be me, right here, right now. To experience insight, wonder, awe, and beauty. This is the stuff of life, don't you think?” WonderBeautyLife Philosophy Book:Eden Source: Eden
“There’s only so much love a heart can hold before it starts to burst. Love must take form, find its vessel: not to get, but simply to be.” LoveHeart Book:Eden Source: Eden
“Sometimes, grief performs itself; conjures shape and voice from the shadows.” Grief Book:Eden Source: Eden
“Books are like people. They live on in those whose lives they touch, like a kind of ancestral spirit. Once you’ve been touched by a book, it will stay with you forever.” ReadingLiteratureBooks Book:Eden Source: Eden
“The art of femto-photography, or light in flight, had recently been patched in. The technique recorded video at such high speeds that it could reveal the very movement of light through three-dimensional space. Software slowed the footage so that humans could watch light fill a room as its wavefront rippled through the space. Through femto, light took its time, modulating the physics of illumination to make space for tenderness. Femto framed light as a lover – delicate, lingering, sensorial – intimacy slowed to the speed of longing. Light became sculpture. Time became texture.” LightPoetryAestheticsIlluminationScience Poetry Author:Hadley Coull