Our entire society’s based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being completely dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything. Taking it for granted that that’s the whole point of life, never to be satisfied. If you’re perfectly happy with what you’ve got—specially if what you’ve got isn’t even all that spectacular—then you’re dangerous. You’re breaking all the rules, you’re undermining the sacred economy, you’re challenging every assumption that society’s built on.
—Tana French, The Likeness
I took this book to OBX with me this weekend and, although I dragged it to the beach, on and off the boat, and into various comfortable chairs, I didn’t read a damn word.
Obviously, the trip was a success.
(via gordonshumway)
I like the way John Reuben says it: “Ah man tell me who knew that simply being content was the dream come true?”
