Extremely loud & incredibly close / Jonathan Safran Foer
"What if the water that came out of the shower was treated with a chemical that responded to a combination of things, like your heartbeat and your body temperature and your brainwaves, so that your skin changed color according to mood? If you were extremely excited your skin would turn green, and if you we're angry you'd turn red, obviously, and if you felt like shiitake you'd turn brown and if you we're blue you'd turn blue.
Everyone could know what everyone else felt and we could be more careful with each other, because you'd never want to tell someone who skin was purple that you're angry at her for being late, just like you'd want to pat a pink person on the back and say, "Congratulations!"
How apt.
I wanna read the book..
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Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - "So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow. Usually we assume we must grasp in order to have something that will ensure our happiness. We ask ourselves, how can we possibly enjoy anything if we cannot own it? How often attachment is mistaken for love! Even when the relationship is a good one, love is spoilt by attachment, with its insecurity, possessiveness, and pride; and then when love is gone, all you have left to show for it are the 'souvenirs' of love, the scars of the attachment."