"It's no wonder that people hate the idea that they might be ace, if not wanting sex for any reason is a death sentence for romance. [...] The logical implication of these messages about the necessity of sex is that asexuality is an existential threat to any hope of a lasting relationship." - ACE: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"You can't be what you can't see." - ACE: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Rejecting one form of social programming makes it easier to start questioning everything else." - ACE: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Like anything that is honest, it can be messy." - ACE: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"What makes us most human [...] is what is least computable about us—the connections between our mind and our body, the experiences that shape our memory and our thinking, our capacity for emotion and empathy. The great danger we face as we become more intimately involved with our computers—as we come to experience more of our lives through the disembodied symbols flickering across our screens—is that we'll begin to lose our humanness, to sacrifice the very qualities that separate us from machines." - The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

"In Google's world, which is the world we enter when we go online, there's little place for the pensive stillness of deep reading or the fuzzy indirection of contemplation. Ambiguity is not an opening for insight but a bug to be fixed. The human brain is just an outdated computer that need a faster processor and a bigger hard drive—and better algorithms to steer the course of its thought." - The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

"Everything that human beings are doing to make it easier to operate computer networks is at the same time, but for different reasons, making it easier for computer networks to operate human beings." - The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

"I had not misunderstood. The Okawa parents had won their case - they had been awarded more than £11 million. All their children were still dead." - Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone

[...] "And it sounds terrible but it is, in fact, freeing: the idea that queer does not equal good or pure or bright. It is simply a state of being—one subject to politics, to its own social forces, to larger narratives, to moral complexities of every kind. So bring on the queer villains, the queer heroes, the queer sidekicks and secondary characters and protagonists and extras. They can be a complete cast unto themselves. Let them have agency, and then let them go." - In the dream house: a memoir

"Gazing down in silence, Copper began to imagine that the individual cars were insects. If they were bugs, he thought, they would be rhinoceros beetles. They're a swarm of rhinoceros beetles that comes crawling in a big hurry. Then once they've done their job, they go hurrying home. There's no knowing what it's about, but to them great affairs are happening, make no mistake." - How Do You Live?

[...] "em geral, as pessoas que morrem de medo da opinião alheia têm medo é de que pensem o mesmo que elas pensam de si mesmas." - A Sutil Arte de Ligar o F*da-se

[...] "and the trees remind me that being human was the hardest thing they ever had to do." - The Truth about Keeping Secrets

"In this tradition and in modern ecology, there is potential to realize that work is not only industry, the productive action that transforms the world, but also reproduction, the work of remaking life with each year and generation. Seeing nature's work in this light would align environmental politics with the key feminist insight that much socially necessary work is ignored or devalued as "caregiving", a gendered afterthought to the real dynamos of the economy, when in reality no shared life could do without it." - How to Do Nothing

"Things like the American obsession with individualism, customized filter bubbles, and personal branding—anything that insists on atomized, competing individuals striving in parallel, never touching—does the same violence to human society as a dam does to a watershed." - How to Do Nothing

"In a situation where every waking moment has become the time in which we make our living, and when we submit even our leisure for numerical evaluation via likes on Facebook and Instagram, constantly checking on its performance like one checks a stock, monitoring the ongoing development of our personal brand, time becomes an economic resource that we can no longer justify spending on "nothing."" - How to Do Nothing

"Era uma orla que conhecia a magia e os mistérios das tempestades e das estrelas. Há muita solitude em um lugar assim. As matas nunca estão solitárias, elas são repletas de uma vida sussurante, amigável e convidativa. E o mar é uma alma poderosa, eterna, lamentando um pesar inescrutável, encerrada em si mesma para todo o sempre. É impossível sondar seus mistérios infinitos; só podemos imaginá-los, deslumbrados e atônitos, do lado de fora. Os bosques nos chamam com centenas de vozes, mas o oceano tem uma apenas: uma voz poderosa que encharca nossa alma com sua música majestosa. Os bosques são humanos, mas o mar é da companhia dos arcanjos." - Anne e a Casa dos Sonhos, p. 68.

[...] "Afinal", disse Anne a Marilla, certa vez, "creio que os dias melhores e mais doces não são aqueles em que acontece algo muito esplêndido, maravilhoso e empolgante, mas sim aqueles que trazem os pequenos e simples prazeres, um após o outro sem pressa, como pérolas soltando-se de um colar." - Anne de Avonlea, p. 172.

"Marilla, olhe aquela grande estrela acima do bosque de bordos do senhor Harrison, em meio à quietude sagrada do céu prateado. É como se fosse uma oração. Afinal, quando é possível ver estrelas e um céu como este, os pequenos desapontamentos e os acidentes não tem muita importância, não é?" - Anne de Avonlea, p. 159-160.

"Você viu todos os diamantes que aquelas senhoras usavam?", suspirou Jane. "Eram simplesmente deslumbrantes. Vocês não adorariam ser ricas, meninas?" [...] "Nós somos ricas", asseverou Anne. "Ora, temos só 16 anos ainda, e somos felizes feito rainhas, e todas temos imaginações, mais ou menos. Olhem para o mar, meninas... todo prata e sombras e visões de coisas inéditas. Não seríamos capazes de desfrutar mais da beleza dele se tivéssemos milhões de dólares e carreiras de diamantes. Caso pudessem, vocês não trocariam de lugar com nenhuma daquelas mulheres." [...] "Bem, não quero ser ninguém além de mim mesma, mesmo que eu tenha de viver sem o consolo dos diamantes", declarou Anne. "Fico muito feliz de ser Anne de Green Gables, com meu colar de contas de madrepérola. Sei que Matthew me deu esse colar com tanto amor quanto já foi depositado nas joias da Senhora Madame de Rosa." - Anne de Green Gables, p. 287-298.

[...] "E cheguei à conclusão, Marilla, que não nasci para a vida na cidade, e que isso me deixava contente. É bom tomar sorvete em restaurantes incríveis às onze da noite de vez em quando, mas, no dia a dia, prefiro estar no frontão leste ás onze da noite, dormindo profundamente, mas meio que tendo a consciência, mesmo dormindo, que as estrelas brilham lá fora e o vento sopra por entre os abetos ao longo do riacho." - Anne de Green Gables, p. 256.