Things I Have Noticed Quotes

“I have left many things in my life. Hometowns, first apartments, countries, bad relationships, older versions of me, jobs, ideas, department stores, theatre performances, conversations. Leaving is what makes me thrive. My early twenties were full of me leaving places and faces. But it all came to a halt when I moved to Berlin. I had always thought it to be the final destination. The epitome of cities. Everyone I knew wanted to live there, was going to live there, or was already strutting down the wide pavements with a new edgy haircut, dressed all in black and possibly: a drug problem.”
― Sophia Hembeck, Things I Have Noticed: Essays on leaving/searching/finding

“Most people think their childhood was happy till they sit down in a room with abstract art on the wall in front of them a clipboard and behind that clipboard a person with a blank expression.”
― Sophia Hembeck, Things I Have Noticed: Essays on leaving/searching/finding

“That is the good kind of leaving. I have experienced and seen it over the years many times: friends suddenly thriving when that dead weight of a partner finally was dropped. That endless analysis of their character of why they were doing the things they were doing, with the ultimate conclusion: That. They. Just. Sucked.”
― Sophia Hembeck, Things I Have Noticed: Essays on leaving/searching/finding