Zoey: You can’t just pick me up every time you want attention.

Mira: I can if you’re small and portable.

Zoey: I am NOT portable.

Mira, picking her up: Too late.

Ken Domon Right and left hand of the sitting image of Buddha Shakyamuni, in the Hall of Miroku, Nara, 1942

Whenever someone tries to justify saying it's bad to read many books in a year or whatever it's usually to say that they need time to digest/sit with the text. And it's fine if you do need that, but it's a little weird to assume anyone who doesn't take a week to process a book just doesn't process it all and is merely consuming it in a shallow, meaningless way

peak dynamic in my opinion