The half-life of love is forever. Junot Diaz, "A Cheater's Guide to Love"


I got eyebrows waxed yesterday and the wax was too hot and took the skin of one of my eyelids off.  I'm nursing my eyelid (ouch), grading a mountain of end of term assignments the content of which I decided back in August, hence the Diaz (sigh), while listing to an Adam Sandler album and/or reading books on my kindle phone app as my students sweat out their final exams. 

Your life’s work could be scrubbing piss from a toilet bowl. Work isn’t meaningful just because you spend your life doing it. Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

She had to get through her life one way or another. No reason not to take any comfort the world seemed to offer her. If none of it made sense to her now, that might change if she let it. If none of it meant anything, after all, no harm done. Marilyn Robinson, Lila