📖 The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

'In the roots of words we find a portal to the mycelial web of invisible connections undergirding our emotional lives' — the way 'sadness' shares a Latin root with 'sated' and once meant a fullness of experience; the way 'holy' shares a root with 'whole.' The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows invents lovely words for feelings we can't quite name, like querinous — 'a longing for a sense of certainty in a relationship… wishing there were some way to know ahead of time whether this is the person you'll wake up next to for twenty thousand mornings.'