13 Quotes by Liz Jensen

You and Meera didn’t have children. I imagine that was a private response.”“Why create hostages to a future whose shape one could so clearly see? The decision was to avoid grief. For oneself but also for others. “ from habit, I note detailing use of “one “instead of “I “or “we “and store the observation. “The world is too full. But the childless are always punished. It’s a great irony that one gets called selfish for making what is essentially the altruistic choice.

The thought of losing him again kills me. This is of course a figure of speech, I will remain alive, but I will not know happiness.

The mind is infinitely larger than the world it inhabits. There is more to the human brain than machinery or meat. I believe in the soul, I thought suddenly. Everything I know about the brain tells me not to, but I believe in it still.

Men let women down. Over and over again. I’ts what they’re programmed to do.