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There's no point in wishing. We can't change anything about the past. We can only remember. We can only move forward.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Once you figure out what matters, you'll figure out how to be brave.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
We're not lost. We're just headed somewhere different.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
The purpose of memory is to remind us how to live.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Believing is a type of magic. It can make something true.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
It’s okay to be afraid. But not okay if be afraid means you do nothing. You must not do nothing. That’s not life worth living.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Once upon a time we were the standard colors of a rainbow, cheery and certain of ourselves. At some point, we all began to stumble into the in-betweens, the murky colors made dark and complicated by resentment and quiet anger.  At some point, my mother slid so off track she sank into hues of gray, a world drawn only in shadows.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Memory is a mean thing, slicing at you from the harshest angles, dipping your consciousness into the wrong colors again and again. A moment of humiliation, or devastation, or absolute rage, to be rewound and replayed, spinning a thread that wraps around the brain, knotting itself into something of a noose. It won't exactly kill you, but it makes you feel the squeeze of every horrible moment. How do you stop it? How do you work the mind free?
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Everything fades. Everything in the physical world, like paper and furniture, but also things in the mind. Memories, emotions. Life. Friendships. Those fade, too. It’s just a matter of time.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Here is my mother, with wings instead of hands, and feathers instead of hair. Here is my mother, the reddest of brilliant reds, the color of my love and my fear, all of my fiercest feelings trailing after her in the sky like the tail of a comet.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
We kissed, and I was every color in the world, alight.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
最難風雨故人來 [...] it’s an incredible blessing to be able to see your loved ones during the most difficult times.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Colors flash like promises and black flickers like static, like memories, and everything is falling, falling, remembering, falling, remembering, the two words synonymous.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Hold your finger to the sky with so much force it lengthens like a spine. Look up to the point of it and beyond. There. That tiny patch of the world, no bigger than the tip of your finger. At first glance, it might look like one flat color. Blue, or gray, or maybe even orange. But it's much more complex than that. Squint. See the daubs of lilac. The streak of sage no wider than a hyphen. That butterscotch smear and the faint wash of carnelian. All of them coming together to swirl at the point just above your finger. Breathe them in. Let them settle in your lungs. Those are the colors of right now.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Children know the truth," says Feng, her voice going very quiet. I turn to look at her. "What? What do you mean?" "They haven't learned to walk around with a veil over their eyes. That's a habit that come with adulthood. Kids always know what they see. That's why ghosts can't hide from them.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Memories tell a story, if you look hard enough. Because the purpose of memory, I would argue, it to remind us how to live" -Leigh
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Did my mother ever get to see a cicada molting? Did she wish that she could do exact that? Shed her skin and be someone new? There were days when she seemed to transform into something quieter, darker. Her colors deeper but also muted. Both her truer self, and not. Or maybe it wasn't a transformation. Maybe it was a momentary reveal. A peeling back of the protective layers. A sharpening of a pencil, bringing the tip to its most focused point.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Pain has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
My mother's dying soaked down through the carpet, through the wood. When it was done with the bedroom, it took over our house, and then it moved on to me. It soaked through my hair and skin and bone, through my skull and deep into my brain. Now it's staining everything, leaking the blackest black into the rest of the world.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
What is memory? It's not something you can physically hold, or see, or smell, or taste. It's just nerve impulses jumping between neurons. Sometimes it's a matter of choice. Other times it's self-preservation, or protection" -Leight
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Maybe that's where all the other colours are hiding - in a dimenson of the world we just can't see, between our sky and the rest of the universe.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
From up here she would do the most extraordinary thing she was capable of: She would love.
Emily X.R. Pan (An Arrow to the Moon)
She was a sea creature and the music was her ocean.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
The more I think about it, the more that believing seems like the ultimate definition of family.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Here, in two dimensions, they looked so happy. But then, didn’t everyone, in pictures? That was almost the point, wasn’t it? To be able to look back and see yourself smiling, even if the camera had shuttered and clicked while you were standing there thinking about all the things that were wrong?
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
If he looked in my eyes straight on, he would know how he’d pierced me with an arrow, how its shaft was still sticking out of my chest, twitching each time my heart contracted. And maybe he’d see how my mother had sliced up everything else.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Once upon a time we’d been an almost perfect family. I wish we could rewind, go back to live in those years forever.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Pretend you're a kid again and you don't even know what's good. Just try for the sake of trying. For the sake of having fun.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
What would I give for a remote control with a button to slow down time, or even rewind a little bit?
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
We try so hard to make these little time capsules. Memories strung up just so, like holiday lights, casting the perfect glow in the perfect tones. But that picking and choosing what to look at, what to put on display—that’s not the true nature of remembering.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Some terrible requirement of being a teenager is being absolutely awful when your parents are being lovely.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
I guess the universe has a way of knocking supposed-tos right on their asses.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
I'll do all the things I constantly forgot to, all the things I wish I could go back and add in like another layer on a watercolour painting.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Sisters are very lucky... They get to be best friends. Even in the afterlife, I think they recognize the presence of the other better than anyone else.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Purple confusion clouds my mind.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Memories that tell a story, if you look hard enough. Because the purpose of memory, I would argue, is to remind us how to live.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
I wish I could command my brain, say to it: Here. Go ahead. Unspool, and let the memories go. Let them be gone.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
I listen to the clock striking out each determined tick. If only I could rewind, go back in time and ask my mother every question about every tiny thing. How crucial those little fragments are now; how great their absence. I should have saved them up, gathering them like drops of water in a desert. I'd always counted on having an oasis.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
If only I could rewind, go back in time and ask my mother every question about every tiny thing. How crucial those little fragments are now; how great their absence. I should have saved them up, gathered them like drops of water in a desert. I’d always counted on having an oasis.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Each piece was a snow globe of emotion and instinct. And the music-- that was another language entirely.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
The mother-shaped hole became a cutout of the blackest black. Something I could only see around. If I tried to look directly at it, I saw emptiness.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Because the purpose of memory, I would argue, is to remind us how to live.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
But things are good," Caro went on. "It's kind of scary how good." "What do you mean, scary?" Caro shrugged. "I mean, our whole relationship is the payoff of being brave enough to go for something we both wanted. But we have to stay brave.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
A baby bouncing over a knee above a familiar leather sofa. Across the room, deft hands mapping out black and white keys. A living room bursting with magenta warmth and dandelion cheer and all the hues of love, invisible but undeniably there.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
I think people see ghosts all the time, " says Feng. "And I think ghosts want to be seen. They want to be reassured that they truly exist. They back into this world after passing through the gates of death into another dimension, and suddenly they hear every thought, speak every language, understand things they didn't get when they were alive.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Once upon a time we were the standard colors of a rainbow, cheery and certain of ourselves. At some point, we all began to stumble into the in-betweens, the murky colors made dark and complicated by resentment and quiet anger.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
I tried to swallow again, but my throat was dry enough to be splintered apart and used for kindling
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
A friend had said to her once that it wasn’t worth expending such emotional energy, that it was like drinking poison and hoping someone else would die.
Emily X.R. Pan (An Arrow to the Moon)
Maybe it was inevitable. Maybe we were two magnets the universe had been drawing together all this time.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
What makes a person—one who is so deeply loved—decide to do such a thing?
Emily X.R. Pan
Many people think smartphones and apps already know too much about us, but XR will take things to a whole new level.
Kai-Fu Lee (AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future)
eXtended Reality (XR) and spatial computing are inherently familiar to humans, with the potential to reshape not only our social interactions but also human-computer interaction.
Norbertus Krisnu Prabowo
Mixed Reality (MR) and eXtended reality (XR) will reshape the landscape of the entire education industry.
Norbertus Krisnu Prabowo
eXtended Reality (XR) and spatial computing wield unparalleled power to revolutionize education.
Norbertus Krisnu Prabowo
eXtended Reality (XR) and spatial computing are powerful tools that can both disrupt and revolutionize education, a dual potential that is both exciting and daunting.
Norbertus Krisnu Prabowo
Before me lay a body grayer than a sketch. Someone had applied makeup and colors to try to make it look alive. I didn’t cry. That was not my mother. My mother is free in the sky. She doesn’t have the burden of a human body, is not made up of a single dot of gray. My mother is a bird.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Back at home, sometimes people say I look exotic or foreign. Sometimes they even mean it as a compliment. I guess they don't hear how that makes it sound like I'm some animal on display at the zoo.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
It's nobody's fault. But is that even true? It's only human nature to look for a place to lay the blame. Our fingers are more than ready to do the pointing it's like we're all blindfolded and spinning
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
There was a restlessness between her ribs, itching and pulling at her heart. A feeling that she was meant to do much more. She and Roxy had gone to see Dead Poets Society a couple years ago, and afterward that quote from Robin Williams’s character had echoed endlessly in Luna’s head: “Make your lives extraordinary.
Emily X.R. Pan (An Arrow to the Moon)
His boy smells wafted over; the sweetness of his deodorant, the smoky floral of some other product, and, beneath all that, a scent like the quiet grass at night.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Her face was so earnest, so sweet. When she shined her light on him, he felt safe and protected. He felt loved.
Emily X.R. Pan (An Arrow to the Moon)
They traced each other's veins and kissed until their lips were swollen, until they thirsted from something unknown .
Emily X.R. Pan (An Arrow to the Moon)
They traced each other's veins and kissed until their lips were swollen, until they thirsted from something unknown.
Emily X.R. Pan (An Arrow to the Moon)
There was something disturbing about seeing her in that loneliness-induced sleep.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Funny how when you can't sleep the brain turns itself inside out, becomes a desperate and hungering thing. All I want right now is to fall headfirst into the blackest black.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
She said your name is powerful. It's just like the Mandarin word for strength. Li.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
She was the color of home.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Breathe them in. Let them settle in your lungs. Those are the colors of right now.
Emily X.R. Pan
She was a sea creature and the music was her ocean. It had always belonged to her. It was in her every breath, her every movement. She was the color of home.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Once you figure out what matters, you’ll figure out how to be brave.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Sisters are very lucky,” Feng says quietly. “They get to be family and they also get to be best friends. Even in the afterlife, I think they recognize the presence of the other better than anyone else.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
The surface gleamed like hard candy that would dissolve on the tongue. What was that silvery garden scent, so faint and tantalizing? She held the stone up to the moonlight, and then brightness exploded around her.
Emily X.R. Pan (An Arrow to the Moon)
Once upon a time we were the standard colours of a rainbow, cherry and certain of ourselves. At some point, we all began to stumble into the in-betweens, the murky colours made dark and complicated by resentment and quiet anger.
The Astonishing Colour of After by Emily X.R. Pan, p. 208
En mi interior aún hay un agujero con forma de madre. Siempre lo habrá. Pero tal vez no tenga por qué ser un hoyo profundo y oscuro donde tropezar y caerme. Tal vez pueda ser una vasija. Algo que albergue recuerdos y colores (…)
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
The clung to me as I dug through my bag of the keys to the house, it was a warm rain, and it looked gray as it came down from the sky. I imagined it to be liquid armor, shaping itself to my body where it made contact. Shielding me from everything
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
The rain clung to me as I dug through my bag of the keys to the house, it was a warm rain, and it looked gray as it came down from the sky. I imagined it to be liquid armor, shaping itself to my body where it made contact. Shielding me from everything
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
If Axel were there with me, he probably would’ve squeezed my shoulder and asked, What color? And I would’ve had to explain that I was colorless, translucent. I was a jellyfish caught up in a tide, forced to go wherever the ocean willed. I was as unreal as my mother’s nonexistent note.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Colour of After)
Tiene gracia que, cuando no puedes dormir, el cerebro se ponga patas arriba, se convierta en algo desesperado y hambriento. Lo único que quiero ahora mismo es caer de cabeza en la más negra de las negruras. Lo único que quiero es que todo se apague para poder descansar al fin. Que los colores se detengan. Mandar lejos los pensamientos.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
What has been Extinction Rebellion’s magic? It boils down to values, processes, role modelling, positivity and fast learning. Most importantly for me, XR has been a loud advocate of the three core values I call for in this book. In the London protests of April 2019, you could hear the tannoys reminding supporters to respect everyone: the authorities; the government; the public; each other; the oil companies; EVERYONE. In surreal scenes on Waterloo Bridge, the police were caught visibly off balance by the tide chanting: ‘To the police, we love you. We’re doing this for your children’, as the police carried people away to their vans. Of course, as XR’s name suggests, they stand overtly for the preservation of all species. And they made a very strong call for truth. At its best, XR gave us a taste of a better world. They
Mike Berners-Lee (There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years – Updated Edition)
Whose fault was it? That’s the question on everyone’s mind, isn’t it? Nobody will ever say it out loud. It’s a question people would call inappropriate. The kind of thing where everyone tells you, “It’s nobody’s fault.” But is that even true? It’s only human nature to look for a place to lay the blame. Our fingers are more than ready to do the pointing, but it’s like we’re all blindfolded and spinning. What makes a person want to die?
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
All technologically-enhanced realities are, de facto, XR. It can be a digital overlay placed over what we can see and experience in the physical world (a simple Snapchat filter, for example), VR roller coasters, or Pokémon GO. Whenever we're not (only) dealing with the physical world, we're in the metaverse.
Simone Puorto
We need a new tech-agnostic mindset if we don't want to be kept hostage of a dystopian, advertising-fueled XR nightmare.
Simone Puorto
The metaverse creates a new reality that blurs the boundaries between the physical and digital worlds. The metaverse will come when we no longer need AR & VR glasses, but just XR devices (glasses, contact lenses, implants, etc.)
Simone Puorto
Who knew it was the Adderall XR messing with my head?
Charles Benedict (My Life In and Out: One Man’s Journey into Roman Catholic Priesthood and Out of the Closet)
It was down to one little foot pedal, the Gibson fuzz tone, a little box they put out at that time. I’ve only ever used foot pedals twice—the other time was for Some Girls in the late ’70s, when I used an XR box with a nice hillbilly Sun Records slap-echo on it. But effects are not my thing. I just go for quality of sound. Do I want this sharp and hard and cutting, or do I want warm, smooth “Beast of Burden” stuff? Basically you go: Fender or Gibson?
Keith Richards (Life)
Cos’è, esattamente, il metaverso? Può essere definito come una nuova realtà digitale che combina elementi di AR, VR, realtà mista, social networking, gioco online, shopping e lavoro. Alcuni potrebbero etichettarlo come realtà estesa (XR), ma è difficile affibbiare una label comunemente accettata al concetto perché – chiariamolo il prima possibile – il metaverso non esiste. Almeno, non ancora.
Simone Puorto (Hotel Distribution 2050. (Pre)visioni sul futuro di hotel marketing e distribuzione alberghiera)
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My bike leaned into his, both of them held in the embrace of heavy-duty locks that we'd threaded through the wheels and frames. It occurred to me - sadly, pathetically - that those bikes looked romantic. They touched and bumped without hesitation, without thought. They'd shared in so many adventures; they had history. They belonged together.
The Astonishing Colour of After by Emily X.R. Pan, p. 91
Do we need protest? After decades of asking politely and getting nowhere, we have a full-scale emergency on our hands. We have to have change. And it must be now. If the right kind of protest is what it takes, then that’s what we must have. I do not write this as someone who feels instinctive joy at the thought of taking to the streets, but these are serious times. There is compelling evidence that the right kind of protest clearly works. When, in 2019, the UK tightened its carbon targets to ‘net zero by 2050’, it wasn’t far enough, but it was a big step in the right direction. And it looks pretty clear that the political space to make that possible was opened up in no small part by protesters; by Greta Thunberg, by armies of school kids, and by Extinction Rebellion (XR). My work with tech giants, investment bankers, energy companies, an airline and many other corporations tells me that these straight-talking, non-violent direct actions made possible conversations in boardrooms that seemed unthinkable just 18 months before.
Mike Berners-Lee (There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years – Updated Edition)
The technique differs slightly depending on whether you have an X-class phone (iPhone X, XR, XS, XS Max) or one with a home button:
David Pogue (iPhone: The Missing Manual: The book that should have been in the box)
St John had always been a fan of the RS Turbo, mainly due to the colour coded rear spoiler and air vents in the bonnet, which distinguished it from the more common and less powerful XR3i.
St. John Morris (The Bizarre Letters of St John Morris)
They drift back into this world after passing through the gates of death into another dimension, and suddenly they hear every thought, speak every language, understand things they didn’t get when they were alive.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Colour of After)
We did not pass one other Mercury Merkur XR4Ti the entire way.
Augusten Burroughs (Lust & Wonder)
Whose fault was it? That’s the question on everyone’s mind, isn’t it? Nobody will ever say it out loud. It’s a question people would call inappropriate. The kind of thing where everyone tells you, “It’s nobody’s fault.” But is that even true? It’s only human nature to look for a place to lay the blame. Our fingers are more than ready to do the pointing, but it’s like we’re all blindfolded and spinning. What makes a person want to die? She had me. She had Dad. She had her best friend, Tina. She taught piano lessons to a third of the kids in our neighborhood. Anyone who knew her would have said she seemed like the happiest. The most alive. When she laughed, her face bloomed and you felt warm at the center. Those last few months her laughs came rare. I noticed it, I really did. But I chalked it up to moodiness; she’d always been in the habit of swinging from one extreme to the other. I excused it too quickly, too easily. Was it my fault? If I had only— Or if Dad had only— If Mom had only— What?
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
We try so hard to make these little time capsules. Memories strung up just so, like holiday lights, casting the perfect glow in the perfect tones. But that picking and choosing what to look at, what to put on display—that’s not the true nature of remembering. Memory is a mean thing, slicing at you from the harshest angles, dipping your consciousness into the wrong colors again and again. A moment of humiliation, or devastation, or absolute rage, to be rewound and replayed, spinning a thread that wraps around the brain, knotting itself into something of a noose. It won’t exactly kill you, but it makes you feel the squeeze of every horrible moment. How do you stop it? How do you work the mind free? I wish I could command my brain, say to it: Here. Go ahead. Unspool, and let the memories go. Let them be gone.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
The eighty-ninth floor of the Taipei 101 tower is the observatory deck, where you can look out at the entire city through walls of glass. Buildings in miniature. Mountains layered in the distance like gentle strokes of watercolor, the farthest ones fogged and fading into the clouds. It’s a strange juxtaposition: the city so tightly packed, everything built so closely together—and beyond that, the sprawling greens and blues of lush forests.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Funny how when you can’t sleep the brain turns itself inside out, becomes a desperate and hungering thing. All I want right now is to fall headfirst into the blackest black. All I want is for everything to shut off so I can finally rest. Make the colors stop. Send the thoughts away. Let everything go still. Is this what it feels like to want to reach the end? Is this the kind of existence that led my mother to become a bird?
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
My mother’s hands have turned to wings. Her hair, to feathers. Her pale complexion now red as blood, red as wine, every shade of every red in the universe. The bird. The bird. The bird. That’s all I can think about. Crawling into bed is like swimming through something thick and murky. My every limb weighed down. Brain hazy with sleep deprivation. Eyes aching, the periphery of my vision dull and watery. I should be able to sleep. I’m exhausted. But the moment I close my eyes, they flutter. I have to strain to keep them shut. The bird the bird the bird. My mother the bird.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
Once, Dad and I went to a choir concert where my mother was the piano accompanist. Everyone was watching the conductor, the singers, the soloists—but we kept our faces angled toward the far left of the stage. There, my mother leaned over the huge piano, her hands heavy as anvils when the voices stormed, fluttering light as a dove when the voices sailed low and quiet. Her chords kept time like a clock. She turned her own pages, her hand flying so quickly it was like a magic trick; if you blinked you would miss it. Nobody but us watched her, but she was playing for all the world. She was a sea creature and the music was her ocean. It had always belonged to her. It was in her every breath, her every movement. She was the color of home.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)
I have no idea how to answer her. The tremors start in my toes, making their way up the rest of my body. I am an earthquake. Any second now, I’m going to split apart.
Emily X.R. Pan (The Astonishing Color of After)