## Metadata - Author: [[Michael Marshall Smith]] - Full Title: Everything You Need - Category: #books ## Highlights - You think great, thanks for all the years and I love you still but I’m out here on my own now. Big fucking mistake. If you got a family and it likes getting together once a year... just fucking do it. Bite the bullet and get on the fucking plane. There’s plenty of time and a million different ways to be an asshole. Don’t feel you got to get them all done at once. ([Location 656](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00PUXWL04&location=656)) - There is no food in the fucking world tastes like a burger eaten with people you’ve known your whole life. ([Location 674](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00PUXWL04&location=674)) - To watch your son, asleep in his comfortable bed with a tummy full of food that you made him and a head full of story you’ve just told, arm gripping a furry polar bear you bought him on a whim but to which he’s taken as if they’d been separated at birth... that’s why we’re born. That’s why everything else is worth it. ([Location 788](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00PUXWL04&location=788)) - School is where you learn the primal things, the big spells, the place where you become versed in the eternal hierarchies and are appraised of our species’ hopes and fears. Being back in one as an adult is like returning in waking hours to some epic battleground in the dreamscape — even if, like me, you had a pretty decent time during your formative years. ([Location 854](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00PUXWL04&location=854)) - Difference is difference, whether it be big or small, and it may even be that the smaller differences feel the most enticing. Most people do not want (and would not be capable of) throwing aside a lifetime of preference and predilection and taste. You are who you are, and you like what you like. Short of being able to have their partner manifest a different body once in a while, many seem to opt for a very similar body that just happens to have a slightly different person inside. A person of the same class and general type, but just different enough to trigger feelings of newness, to enable the sensation of experiencing something novel — to wake up, for a spell, the slumbering person inside. ([Location 1644](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00PUXWL04&location=1644))