“The nurses in Willow Glen didn’t try to prevent death. But they did try to guide you to die in the right way. Because if you died from something you weren’t supposed to die from, families became suspicious.” — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
“In the story of the blind men and the elephant, what’s usually ignored is the fact that each man’s description was correct. What Faye… — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
“There are some mysteries of the universe that ought to remain mysteries.” — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
“He’s like the most dangerous species of American there is: heterosexual white male who didn’t get what he wanted.” — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
“Whereas if you choose to see people as puzzles, and if you see yourself as a puzzle, then you will be constantly delighted, because eventually, if you dig deep enough into anybody, if you really look under the hood of someone’s life, you will find something familiar. This is more work, of course, than believing they are enemies. Understanding is… — Nathan Hill Copy Share
“But such was the way with people – they loved the things that made them miserable.” — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
“Empathy. Most people think empathy is like understanding someone else or relating to them. But it's more than that. Real empathy is the actual corporeal feeling of someone else's emotions, so that it's experienced not only in the brain but also in the body, the body vibrating like a tuning fork to the sadness and suffering of another, as in,… — Nathan Hill Copy Share
“I saw the northern lights once. In upper Alberta. I booked a trip with this outfit called See the Northern Lights! I had wanted the northern lights to fill me with wonder. And they did. They filled me with wonder. Which was a big letdown because they exactly matched my expectations of them. They did exactly what I'd paid for.… — Nathan Hill Copy Share
“A dormitory was a hopeless idea. Whoever thought of encasing two hundred girls in a concrete box?” — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
“There is not one true self hidden by many false ones. Rather, there is one true self hidden by many other true ones” — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
“Everyone loves a prodigy [...]. Prodigies get us off the hook for living ordinary lives. We can tell ourselves we're not special because we… — Nathan Hill Copy Share Image
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