## Metadata - Author: [[Sloane Crosley]] - Full Title: Look Alive Out There - Category: #books ## Highlights - When the basic becomes exotic, you’re in trouble. ([Location 776](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B075JK2P4L&location=776)) - One’s instinct, when depending on something faulty, is to immediately stop depending on that thing. It only takes a moment of balancing a refrigerator on stilts to realize it’s time to put the refrigerator elsewhere. But to have there be no “elsewhere,” to have your body betray you, is a frightening sensation. You want an extra heart to help this one pump blood. But there is no extra heart. It’s like going through a breakup and wanting to talk about your distress with the person who just dumped you. ([Location 1362](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B075JK2P4L&location=1362)) - Still, it’s not like I’m dying. At least that’s what I tell my French friend when he asks me if I’m dying. I have never been asked this in a sincere fashion before. I am flattered that he thinks I would know. People who regularly push themselves to the brink of their physical limitations know what dying feels like. ([Location 1399](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B075JK2P4L&location=1399))