I forget how young you are. You’re still at the age where you mistake your friends and your colleagues for family.
There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn’t chosen.
To be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.
What is a storm? Sadie thought. It is water, and it is light, and it is wind. And it is how these three elements act on the surfaces they touch. How hard can that be?
Sadie had willed herself to be great: art doesn’t typically get made by happy people.
It’s more than romantic. It’s better than romance It’s friendship.
Friendship,” Marx said, “is kind of like having a Tamagotchi.” Tamagotchis, the digital pet keychains, were everywhere that year.
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, by David Kushner;.
Most of the time, Sam did not experience himself as disabled, but the cobblestones, the ice, and the glacial pace at which he had to negotiate them suggested otherwise.
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made, by Jason Schreier;.
What a world. People once made glass sculptures of decay, and they put these sculptures in museums. How strange and beautiful human beings are. And how fragile.
Before I met you, I felt this constantly. I felt it with my family, my friends, and every boyfriend I ever had. I felt it so often that I thought this was the nature of living. To be alive was to accept that you were fundamentally alone.” Simon’s.
All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Video Games Conquered Pop Culture, by Harold Goldberg;.
How quickly you go from being the youngest to the oldest person in a room, she thought.
What, after all, is a video game’s subtextual preoccupation if not the erasure of mortality?
There are people like you and like me. We have bad things happen to us, and we survive them. We are sturdy. But with people like your friend, you must be exceptionally gentle, or they may break.
This fabric is not just a fabric. It’s the story of failure and of perseverance, of the discipline of a craftsman, of the life of an artist.
The boredom you speak of, it is what most of us call happiness.
Life is very long, unless it is not.
It was only when he was alone and he couldn’t participate in the business of living that he tended to notice how lovely being alive was.